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The First Phone
Alexander Graham Bell discovered the first telephone in 1876 when he was working and he could hear something on the other end through the wires and knew he made a discovery.
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The First "modern' Telephone
Henry Dreyfuss technically invented the first "modern" phone. He designed the "Model 302". Which is still in homes today. This phone was kind of bulky and sat on a surface, then you picked up the actual phone part to talk into it.
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The Phone Job
In 1946, women started to get jobs as receptionists, answering phones for businesses.
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The Phone design continues
As the years go on the telephone gradually gets smaller and more efficient. In 1965 a keypad, named a "trimline" gets put on the base of the phone.
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Cont.
In 1965, what is called the 'Grillo Cricket" is a new, smaller phone.
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People's own designs
In this year, there was a law taken away that made it so people could design there own telephones or buy others. One of the most popular was the "Beocom" phone.
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Cordless Phones
One way people wanted there phones was cordless because they wanted to be able to move around there house. So that's how the cordless phone designs starting taking off and that idea was a winner. John Stoddard started this design.
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Cont.
People kept trying to get there designs to succeed and make efficient phones. So they started making them different shapes and adding colors.
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Smaller Phones
When the 90's started the phone shrunk more and more. In this smaller phone design, you were able to charge it on a separate base!
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Flip Phone
In 1992, a new phone named StarTAC was designed by Motorola. This phone was considered the first flip phone.This phone even had a little screen!
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More accessories
In this year a lot of new things were added to the phone, like a voicemail option at the end of un-answered calls.
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The first iPhone
In 2007, the very first iPhone was invented! People described this as a tiny computer that could call. This phone was said to change the phone industry.
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The future of phones
Ten years from now, they beleive that phones will be glass thin, the batter will be a tremendous change as well.
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Into the Future
Into the next twenty years, people believe that technology will advance tremendously. They believe that little things will change, like the battery. And huge things will change, like being able to fold your phone up and take up less space!
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The future of phones
In this many years forward people have said that pretty much anything electronic is possible. Maybe even no screen at all, or maybe holographic images, the only thing we can do is wait and hope for new fun technology!
https://electronics.howstuffworks.com/phones-in-2050.htm
