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Telephone was invented.
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The first permanent outdoor telephone wire was completed.
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Almost 50,000 telephones in the US alone.
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The first coin operated telephone installed.
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“French phone” developed by the Bell company.
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Worlds first commercial mobile phone service put into operation.
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The transistor was invented at Ball laboratories.
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The world’s first international communications satellite, Telstar, was launched.
