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The pager was invented 1949 by All Gross
1949 the very first telephone pager device was patented by Al Gross and used by the Jewish Hospital in New York starting in 1950. Pagers or beepers are portable communication and messengering devices. Pagers sales are down and few companies still make pagers. Older one-way pagers are being replaced by more sophisticated messaging tools, such as two-way pagers. -
Approval
The FCC did not approve the pager for public use until 1958. -
Motorola pagers
The name pager was first used in 1959 when Motorola made a personal radio communications product they called a pager. The Motorola pager was a small receiver that delivered a radio message individually to those carrying the device. -
The first succesful pager
The first successful consumer pager was Motorola's Pageboy I first introduced in 1974. It had no display and could not store messages, however, it was portable and notified the wearer that a message had been sent. -
Pagers became worldwide
By 1980, there were 3.2 million pager users worldwide. At that time pagers had a limited range and were used mostly in on-site situations for example when medical workers communicate with each other within a hospital. -
Tha Pagers end
The cellphones had just started comming out, the people lost intrest in the pagers which led to extinction of pagers.
