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Bell System
Bell System introduces the touch tone phone. This telephone made a different beep for each number instead of counted clicks for each number. -
Electronic Telephone
The electronic telephone switching system is placed into service. Calls are switched faster than before. -
Early Bird
The first commercial communications satilite -
Fiber optics
K.C. Kao and G.A. Hockham publish the principles of fiber optic communications. This cable uses glass to send a light beam that carries thousands of calls -
First single microprocesser The 4004
The microprocessor would make telephones and switching systems smaller, lighter and faster to use. -
Motorola cellular telephone
Motorola demonstrates the cellular telephone to the FCC. People could call each other without wires. -
IBM PC
The Internet would use the telephone lines in the future to transmit information through a personal computer. -
"Ma Bell"
AT&T agrees to breakup its Bell System telephone companies -
Fax Machine
A printed sheet of paper can be sent across telephone lines and received whole on the other end. -
Pocket telephone
Pocket" cellular telephone is introduced by Motorola.
