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Antonio Meucci
Created the first basic telephone -
Charles Bourseul
Frenchman who created the “make and break” telephone -
Harmonic telegraph
A device that could transmit multiple messages at ore time. Started interest in transmitting human voice -
Simple receiver
Bell and partner Thomas Watson created receiver that turns electricity into sound -
First US Patent
Alexander Graham Bell was the one to get it -
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Firsts
The first telephone line, switchboard, and telephone exchange happened -
American Bell Telephone Company
Merged phone company’s together to created this -
AT&T
AT&T was created -
First transcontinental call
Bell called Watson in San Francisco from New York -
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Government nationalized telephones
World war 1 caused the government to get phone lines across the US -
First commercial mobile phone
Links moving vehicles to telephone network by radio -
Transatlantic cables
Transatlantic cables were laid making calls to Europe from the US possible -
First cell phone
Motorola shows first wireless to the phone FCC -
First commercial cell phone
Martin Cooper creates first commercial cell phone -
First "smart phone"
First attempt at a smartphone -
First iPhone
First iPhone released with touch screen -
First android-based smartphone
Motorola releases the droid