Technology Timeline

By Lonerwolfkj1

  • First ever cell phone

    First ever cell phone
    On march 10, 1876 a guy named Alexander Graham Bell created the first ever cell phone.

  • Telephone Company

    Telephone Company
    The bell telephone company was located in Boston, MA. It was a Privately held company, it was founded by Alexander Graham Bell's father-in-law Gardiner Greene Hubbard.

  • Strowger Telephone

    Strowger Telephone
    This is the first dial telephone. The inventor, Almon Strowger, was an undertaker in Kansas City in the late 1800s. Strowger patented his stepping exchange system in 1891 and installed it in La Porte, Indiana, in 1892.

  • Rotary Telephone

    Rotary Telephone
    The first true rotary phone appeared in 1892. This rotary dial phone was built around Almon Brown Strowger's 1891 patent design.

  • First Flip Phone

    First Flip Phone
    The Motorola StarTAC, first released on 3 January 1996, is the first ever clamshell (flip) mobile phone. The semi-clamshell design first launched in 1989.

  • 1st touchscreen phone

    1st touchscreen phone
    The IBM Simon was the first phone with a touchscreen in 1992. A few competitors came out in the early '90s, but most mobile devices with touchscreens were more like PDAs.

  • Popular flip phone

    Popular flip phone
    Motorola StarTAC
    It was also the world's first real flip mobile phone. So in essence, it triggered two trends that succeed to varying degrees. It followed the MicroTAC, a semi-clamshell phone that launched in 1989. This being 1996, one of the key features of the StarTAC was SMS text messaging.

  • First Cell Phone with Camera

    First Cell Phone with Camera
    The first BlackBerry device, the 850, was introduced in 1999 as a two-way pager in Munich, Germany. The name BlackBerry was coined by the marketing company Lexicon Branding.

  • The iphone

    The iphone
    Starting at $399 Single-camera system
    (Wide)
    Up to 13 hours of video playback1
    Water resistant to a depth of 1 meter for up to 30 minutes2
    4.7” Retina HD display

  • First Android phone

    First Android phone
    The first commercially available smartphone running Android was the HTC Dream, also known as T-Mobile G1, announced on September 23, 2008.

  • Sixthsense technology

    Sixthsense technology
    SixthSense is a gesture-based wearable computer system developed at MIT Media Lab by Steve Mann in 1994 and 1997 (headworn gestural interface), and 1998 (neckworn version), and further developed by Pranav Mistry (also at MIT Media Lab), in 2009, both of whom developed both hardware and software for both headworn and neckworn versions of it