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The telephone was first created!
To converse with friends or family without leaving home. -
The Blake transmitter
It was the first successful telephone transmitter. It was invented by Francis Blake and it used a carbon and platinum based resistance element. -
Desk Telephones. (Eiffel Tower)
This product was a response to Ericsson's Skeletal Telephone. It was very popular in Europe and it was the first desktop telephone with a handset. -
Tapered Shaft Oil-Can Candlestick
This is was known as the oil can because of the way the telephone looked upside down. It was invented by Stromberg Carlson. -
11 digit Potbelly Dial Candlestick
This is the first dial telephone.
Almon Strowger also developed the first automated telephone switch out of electromagnets and hat pins. -
Transcontinental Call Telephone
The transcontinental telephone line linked the Atlantic seaboard with the West Coast. -
Model 102 Round Base
The Western Electric model 102 was the bell system's first handset telephone. -
Motorola DynaTAC 8000X
The Model T of mobiles. -
Treo 600
The Treo 600 was the chocolate and peanut butter of PDAs and mobile phones. Along with the Hiptop and BlackBerry, it ushered in the age of the smartphone. Designed for the mobile business sector, it also had a bevy of fun-loving features, like a 640 × 480 VGA camera, and integrated MP3 player that let you rock out with your spreadsheet out. -
RIM BlackBerry 7290
Though hardly the first BlackBerry, the 7290 was a killer combo of technology, with quadband GSM, a vivid color screen, Bluetooth and of course the full QWERTY keyboard that brought e-mail and the web right into the palm of your hand.
