Phones

History of Phones

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  • String Telephone

    String Telephone
    In 1667,Robert Hooke invented a string telephone that conveyed sounds over an extended wire by mechanical vibrations. It was to be termed an 'acoustic' or 'mechanical' (non-electrical) telephone. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_telephone]

  • First Phone

    First Phone
    Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone, made the first call on March 10, 1876, to his assistant, Thomas Watson. [http://www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/recon/jb_recon_telephone_1.html]

  • First Switchboard

    First Switchboard
    George W. Coy designed and built the world's first switchboard for commercial use
    [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_telephone]

  • First telephone exchange

    First telephone exchange
    The first commercial telephone exchange was opened at New Haven, Connecticut with 21 subscribers on 28 January 1878,[17] in a storefront of the Boardman Building in New Haven, Connecticut. A telephone exchange provides telephone service for a small area. Either manually by operators, or automatically by machine switching equipment, it interconnects individual subscriber lines for calls made between them. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_telephone]

  • Rotary Phone Patent

    Rotary Phone Patent
    The first actual rotary phone patent dates back even further, having been invented by John and Charles Erickson, and their partner A.E. Keith, in 1896. It wasn't until 1919, however, that the first rotary dial entered into service. [visionlaunch.com/when-was-the-rotary-phone-invented/]

  • First Wireless phone

    First Wireless phone
    Motorola was the first company to produce a handheld mobile phone. On April 3, 1973, Martin Cooper, a Motorola researcher and executive, made the first mobile telephone call from handheld subscriber equipment, placing a call to Dr. Joel S. Engel of Bell Labs, his rival.[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_mobile_phones]

  • First Touchscreen Phone

    First Touchscreen Phone
    The IBM Simon was the first phone with a touchscreen in 1992 — it's also referred as the first “smartphone,” though the term was not yet coined.[mashable.com/2012/11/09/touchscreen-history/]

  • First Flip Phone

    First Flip Phone
    Motorola StarTAC. The Motorola StarTAC is a clamshell mobile phone manufactured by Motorola. It was released on January 3, 1996, being the first ever clamshell/flip mobile phone. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_StarTAC]

  • Camera Phone

    Camera Phone
    The first cell phone with a built-in camera was manufactured by Samsung and released in South Korea in June of 2000. The SCH-V200 flipped open to reveal a 1.5-inch TFT-LCD, and the built-in digital camera was capable of taking 20 photos at 350,000-pixel resolution, which is 0.35-megapixels, but you had to hook it up to a computer to get your photos.[https://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/camera-phone-history/]

  • First IPhone

    First IPhone
    The iPhone (unofficially referred as the iPhone 2G[9]), is the first smartphone model designed and marketed by Apple. It is the first generation of iPhone that was announced on January 9, 2007 after years of rumors and speculation.It was introduced in the United States on June 29, 2007, and it featured quad-band GSM cellular connectivity with GPRS and EDGE support for data transfer.[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone_(1st_generation)]