Phone

By emiliediana14

  • Telephone

    Alaxnder Graham invented the telephone.

  • Candlestick Telephone

    Almon Strowger invents the telephone. Featured a mouth piece mounted at the top of the stand, and a receiver that was held by the user to the ear during a call.

  • Rotary Telephone

    Rotary Telephone
    Almon B. Strowger invented the rotary telephone. To dial, you would rotate the dial to the number you wanted, and then release.

  • answering machine

    answering machine
    Willy Müller invented the answering machine. Not popular until the 1960s, these phone accessories originally used cassette tapes to record messages.

  • Push button telephone

    Push button telephone
    Bell Telephone introduced the first commercial push-button telephone.

  • Portable telephones

    Portable telephones
    Martin Cooper invents the portable telephone. Portable, or cordless, phones were the phone equivalent of the TV remote. You were no longer physically attached to your phone’s base station.

  • Motorola DynaTAC

    Motorola DynaTAC
    Martin Cooper invented the Motoroal DynaTAC. Released in 1984, the Motorola DynaTAC 8000X was the first commercially available mobile phone.

  • Caller ID

    Caller ID
    Brazilian inventor, Nelio Jose, Nicolai is no millionaire.

  • Nokia 5110

    Nokia 5110
    Introduced by Nokia. One of many classic Nokia candybar-style phones, the Nokia 5110 was rugged and had a long battery life.