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The History Of Telephones

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  • The Telephone Is Invented

    The Telephone Is Invented
    The Telephone Is BornOn March 10, 1876, The first successful telephone transmission of clear speech using a liquid transmitter when Bell spoke into his device, "Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you." and Watson heard each word distinctly.

  • The First Long Distance Telephone Call Is Made

    The First Long Distance Telephone Call Is Made
    The First Long Distance Call Is MadeThe world's first long-distance telephone line, established in 1877, connected French Corral with Bowman Lake (previously known as French Lake)[1] at the headwaters of the Yuba River.[2] It was strung across trees and poles for a distance of 60 mi (97 km) in Nevada County, California, passing through Birchville, Sweetland, North San Juan, Cherokee, North Columbia, Lake City, North Bloomfield, Moores Flat, Graniteville, and Milton.[3] The line was operated by the Ridge Telephone Company for the

  • First Wireless Phone Call

    First Wireless Phone Call
    first Wireless Call On April 1, 1880 American inventor Alexander Graham Bell and his then-assistant Charles Summer Tainter transmitted the first wireless telephone message 213 meters on a beam of light between the roof of the Franklin School and the window of Bell's Washington, D. C. laboratory using the photophone.

  • The First Coast to Coast Call

    The First Coast to Coast Call
    The First Transcontinental CallOn January 25, 1915, Alexander Graham Bell, in New York City, repeated his famous statement "Mr. Watson, come here. I want you," into the telephone, which was heard by his assistant Dr. Watson in San Francisco, for a long distance call of 3,400 miles. Dr. Watson replied, "It will take me five days to get there now!" The Alexander Graham Bell call officially initiated AT&T's transcontinental service.

  • The First Transatlantic Call

    The First Transatlantic Call
    Transatlantic CallThe nature of the first talk, carried out with complete audibility by wireless telephone yesterday, between British and American journalists will do quite as much as can the staggering figures supplied by the experts about the heights of aerials and the power in kilowatts used to convince the average man that friendly, casual chats over some 3,000 miles will be a commonplace of the future. For the re

  • Called ID Is Invented

    Called ID Is Invented
    Caller IdCaller ID (caller identification, CID), is a telephone service, available in analog and digital phone systems and most voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) applications, that transmits a caller's number to the called party's telephone equipment during the ringing signal, or when the call is being set up but before the call is answered. Where available, Caller ID can also provide a name associated with the calling telephone number.

  • NMT Is Created

    NMT Is Created
    NMTThe NMT network was opened in Sweden and Norway in 1981, and in Denmark and Finland in 1982. Iceland joined in 1986. However, the first commercial service was introduced in Saudi Arabia on 1 September 1981 to 1,200 users, one month before Sweden. By 1985 the network had grown to 110,000 subscribers in Scandinavia and Finland, 63,300 in Norway alone, which made it the world's largest mobile network at the time.[2]

  • The Motorola DynaTAC 8000X is born

    The Motorola DynaTAC 8000X is born
    The Motorola DynaTAC 8000XThe Motorola DynaTAC 8000X commercial portable cellular phone received approval from the U.S. FCC on September 21, 1983.[1] A full charge took roughly 10 hours, and it offered 30 minutes of talk time.[2] It also offered an LED display for dialing or recall of one of 30 phone numbers. It was priced at $3,995 in 1984, its commercial release year, worth a modern-day price of nearly $10,000. DynaTAC was an abbreviation of "Dynamic Adaptive Total Area Coverage."

  • The Very First iPhone Is Released

    The Very First iPhone Is Released
    iPhoneThe first advertisement for iPhone, titled "Hello," aired during the 79th Academy Awards on February 25, 2007 on American Coming in June. On June 4, 2007, Apple released four advertisements announcing a June 29, 2007 release date.

  • The iPhone 6 Is Made

    The iPhone 6 Is Made
    iPhone 6The iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus are smartphones designed and marketed by Apple Inc. The devices are part of the iPhone series and were unveiled on September 9, 2014, and released on September 19, 2014.[16] The iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus jointly serve as successors to the iPhone 5C and iPhone 5S.