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Product Evolution- The Phone

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    Telephone innovations

  • The Tin Can Telephone

    The Tin Can Telephone
    tin can telephone this innovation was two cans connected by one string and transmits sounds by vibrations from one can to the other. this innovation was added in 1667. This innovation was created by Robert Hooke. The Tin Can Telephone was also known as the "Lover's Phone".
  • The Electrical Telegraph

    The Electrical Telegraph
    The Electrical telegraphThe Electrical Telegraph was created by Sir William Fothergill Cooke in 1804. It was used on the Great Western Railway in England and ran for 13 miles and came into operation in 1839. The first commersial electrical telegraph ever used was the Cooke and Wheatstone Telegraph. The Electrical Telegraph was soon patented in 1887.
  • The telephone

    The telephone
    the telephone Alexander Graham Bell was the first to patent for the telephone in 1876. The first telephone operated in 1877. By 1880, 49,000 were in use.
  • The mobile phone

    The mobile phone
    the mobile phone Martin Cooper of Mortorola created the first handheld telephone in 1973. Nippon telephone and telegraph launched the first automated cellular network in Japan in 1979. By the early to mid-80's other countries soon started to follow.
  • The Iphone

    The Iphone
    The Iphone The first Generation of the Iphone was created by Steve Jobs of Apple on January 7th, 2007. Jobs introduced the Iphone as the revolutionary mobile phone and as the breakthrough internet communicator.