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English Work | Creating a timeline

  • The creation of the Tin can telephone

    The creation of the Tin can telephone
    Robert Hooke creates an acoustic string telephone that conveys sounds over a taut extended wire by mechanical vibrations
  • The first suggestion of the electric "speaking telegraph", or telephone.

    The first suggestion of the electric "speaking telegraph", or telephone.
    Innocenzo Manzetti first suggests the idea of an electric "speaking telegraph", or telephone.
  • The carbon microphone

    The carbon microphone
    Edison tests his first carbon microphone.
  • First Telephone Numbers

    First Telephone Numbers
  • World's first wireless telephone call

    World's first wireless telephone call
    World's first wireless telephone call on Bell and Tainter's photophone (distant precursor to fiber-optic communications) from the Franklin School in Washington, D.C. to the window of Bell's laboratory, 213 meters away.[21][22]
  • The world's first international call

    The world's first international call
    The world's first international telephone call is made between St. Stephen, New Brunswick, Canada, and Calais, Maine, United States.[23]
  • First Commercial Telephone

    First Commercial Telephone
    On this date, the Bell Telephone Company created, well, the Bell Telephone Company! They started commercially producing phones and service.
  • The first rotary dial telephones

    The first rotary dial telephones
    The first rotary dial telephones in the Bell System installed in Norfolk, Virginia. Telephones that lacked dials and touch-tone pads were no longer made by the Bell System after 1978.
  • The Dial Pad Telephone

    The Dial Pad Telephone
    The rotary style dial pad had been replaced with a cooler dial pad. It only had 10 keys, and no star or asterix key.
  • First Cordless Phones

    First Cordless Phones
  • Mobile Phones Available to the Public

    Mobile Phones Available to the Public
    The US public allowed a cellular mobile phone service to be run.
  • First Advanced Mobile Phone System

    First Advanced Mobile Phone System
    The first advanced mobile phone system was created by BNell Laboratories.
  • First Flip Phone

    First Flip Phone
  • First Smart Phone

    First Smart Phone
    The first extremely modern mobile phone ! There are many many out there. Some features included touch screens, cameras, etc.
  • The IBM Simon Personal Communicator (simply known as IBM Simon)

    The IBM Simon Personal Communicator (simply known as IBM Simon)
    The IBM Simon becomes the first smartphone on the market.
  • First Phones with Internet Conncetion

    First Phones with Internet Conncetion
  • Over 100 000 000 mobile phones owned and sold

    Over 100 000 000 mobile phones owned and sold
    This truly was the start of the technology century.
  • First iPhone

    First iPhone
    The iPhone (colloquially known as the iPhone 2G and iPhone 1 after 2008 to differentiate it from later models) is the first smartphone designed and marketed by Apple Inc. After years of rumors and speculation, it was officially announced on January 9, 2007, and was later released in the United States on June 29, 2007. It featured quad-band GSM cellular connectivity with GPRS and EDGE support for data transfer.
  • First Samsung Galaxy

    First Samsung Galaxy
    The Samsung GT-I7500 Galaxy is a smartphone manufactured by Samsung that uses the open source Android operating system. It was announced on 27 April 2009 and was released on 29 June 2009 as the first Android-powered device from Samsung Mobile, and the first in what would become the long Galaxy series. It is succeeded by the Samsung i5700 Galaxy Spica.