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Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone.
Actor portraying Alexander Graham Bell in a 1926 silent film. The single-port design required the user to alternately speak into and then listen through the same hole. -
Oliver Lodge demonstrates wireless communication over a distance of 150 yards. This is the beginnings of cell phone technology.
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The first coin telephone was installed in Hartford, Connecticut.
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Edwin H. Armstrong invents the superheterodyne receiver circuit. Calls became clearer and faster.
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AT&T agrees to breakup its Bell System telephone companies.
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The Original Iphone was invented.