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First transmition and telephone patenting
After several years of research in the field of communications and studying how to transmit a simple current first, Alexander Graham Bell managed to make the first voice transmission with an invention patented by himself that year, said invention would be the beginning of the telephone.
That transmission was made to his assistant Watson, who was in another room and to whom he said the following famous words: "Mr. Watson, come here. I need you." -
Creation of the Bell Telephone Company
The telephone began to spread as a revolutionary invention that would change the world completely, and that is why a group of researchers interested in advances in communications founded the Bell Telephone Company to expand the use of that innovation. The first regular telephone line between Boston and Somerville was also built and the telephone spread across the country to the point that there were more than 49,000 by the end of the year. -
First telephone with the ability to dial a number
In 1905, Albow B. Strowger invented the first rotary telephones to eliminate the need to have so many operators and switchboards. Although it is true, these telephones did not begin to be marketed until the 1920s when the "Bauhaus" model telephones began to be sold in Frankfurt. -
Beginning of the Transcontinential Service
All telephone wiring in the United States had been completed, 39 years after Graham Bell's first demonstration, more than 14,000 miles of copper wire had been laid that would carry the phone current. Because of this, AT&T summoned Graham Bell in New York to call his partner Thomas Watson who was in San Francisco. In this way, a new process of evolution began towards what we now recognize as something as everyday as the mobile phone. -
New advancements
After many years of improving the telephone, touch-tone dialing and cordless telephones became very common. On the other hand, in this decade images began to be sent through telephones, with the precedents of text messages and video calls appearing. The communications industry completely reinvented itself making it possible to send much more than the voice of a person , also visual information such as photographs. -
Lauch of the first modern cell phone
In the 1980s, the goal for this invention was to decrease its size to the point that it could be carried anywhere. Hence, in 1898, the Motorola company created its MicroTac9800X model, which was the first cell phone model to anticipate today's mobile phones. This cell phone, also had a larger range than tradictional cordless phones. -
Billions of people use telephones
Currently, the telephone, which was invented more than a hundred years ago has been improving its performance, properties and capabilities, making more and more people have one in their hands to take photos, play video games, watch videos and much more.
In fact, today, approximately 4.78 billion people in the world own one, having caused that this invention has spread among more than 60% of the population.
