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Samuel Morse
Samuel Finley Breese Morse was an American inventor and painter. After having established his reputation as a portrait painter, in his middle age, Morse contributed to the invention of a single-wire telegraph system based on European telegraphs. He was a co-developer of Morse code and helped to develop the commercial use of telegraphy. (From Wikipedia) -
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Antonio Meucci
Antonio Santi Giuseppe Meucci was an Italian inventor and an associate of Giuseppe Garibaldi, a major political figure in the history of Italy. Meucci is best known for developing a voice-communication apparatus that several sources credit as the first telephone. (From Wikipedia) -
Electric Telegraph (Samuel Morse)
This telecommunication is very similar to the ones that we have nowadays. It's instantaneous, long-distance and inexpensive communication. -
Telephone (Antonio Meucci)
The telephone is a revolutionary invention that has made people possible to communicate with each other instantly, even if they are far away from each other. Most people believe that Bell was the creator, but in reality, Bell was the one who patented the telephone, due to Meucci's financial problems at that time. -
Martin Cooper
Martin Cooper (born December 26, 1928) is an American engineer. He is a pioneer in the wireless communications industry, especially in radio spectrum management, with eleven patents in the field. While at Motorola in the 1970s, Cooper invented the first mobile phone in 1973. He is considered the "father of the (handheld) cell phone" and is also cited as the first person in history to make a handheld cellular phone call in public. -
Mobile phone (Martin Cooper)
He was working for Motorola and he got inspired by the series Star Trek and the "communicator" to create the mobile phones, but in the beginning, they only had the basic features and they were heavy and not practical at all. They were only used by executives.