Telephones over time!

By Linkrust
  • The first telephone was invented

    The first telephone was invented

    Alexander Graham Bell created the innovative and high tech telephone at this time.
  • First commercial telephone!

    First commercial telephone!

    On this date, a group of people created what is called the bell telephone company. They started commercially producing phones and service. The compony only started picking up business when this telephone was released.
  • First telephone numbers

    First telephone numbers

    It allowed a big advancement in the use of phones to the public.
  • The first rotary dial handset telephone

    The first rotary dial handset telephone

    This telephone was the first telephone to be able to dial, you rotated the dial to type in a number.
  • the dial pad telephone

    the dial pad telephone

    The rotary style dial pad had been replaced with a cooler more relevant dial pad with 10 keys.
  • first cordless phones

    first cordless phones

    The first ever cordless phone that was made was the Carterfone made in the 1950s by Thomas Carter. Phone companies like Sony started manufacturing cordless phones in the 1980s.
  • the first mobile phone

    the first mobile phone

    Martin Cooper is considered the inventor of the mobile phone. You could talk on this phone for 35 minutes before recharging it for 10 hours. The only things you could do with this cell phone were dial talk, and listen.
  • First Iphone

    First Iphone

    The iPhone was released in the United States on June 29, 2007 at the price of $499 for the 4 GB model and $599 for the 8 GB model, both requiring a 2-year contract. Thousands of people were reported to have waited outside Apple and AT&T retail stores days before the device's launch. This just proves how much this step in telephone history mattered.