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Phones were made for world wide or long distance communication.
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Telephones have changed dramatically since Alexander Graham Bell spoke the first words into a telephone on March 10, 1876. Overall, they’ve improved since then, but the road wasn’t always smooth. Here’s a look back at the most important advances in telephone technology and some of the worst.
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It improve 1890s and its the candlestick phone was separated into two pieces. The mouth piece formed the candlestick part, and the receiver was placed by your ear during the phone call.
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As push-button phones gained popularity in the 1960s and ’70s, the rotary dial phone thankfully began its slow death.
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In 1963, AT&T introduced Touch-Tone, which allowed phones to use a keypad to dial numbers and make phone calls.
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Released in 1984, the Motorola DynaTAC 8000X was the first commercially available mobile phone.
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The Motorola StarTAC was the first successful flip phone, and in many ways, the first successful consumer cell phone. Introduced in 1996
