The telephone

By Cupcake132

  • The Invention of the Telephone

    On March 7, 1876, Bell became the first inventor to receive a US patent for the telephone which allows the user to speak into the device and also hear transmissions from the other user.

  • First Call

    Bell transmits speech "Mr. Watson, come here! I want to see you!" using a liquid transmitter as described in Gray's caveat, and an electromagnetic receiver.

  • Long Distance

    Alexander Graham Bell makes the world's first long distance telephone call, about 6 miles between Brant ford and Paris, Ontario, Canada.

  • North American telephone Exchange

    First North American telephone exchange is opened in New Haven, Connecticut using the switch board created by Tivadar Puskas

  • Carbon Transmitter

    Francis Blake invents a carbon transmitter similar to Edison's that saves the Bell company from extinction.

  • Circuit charger

    Gilliland's Automatic creates the circuit changer between Worcester and Leicester that featured the first operator dialing which allows one operator to run two exchanges.

  • Wall Phones

    the first “short” wall telephone model with the batteries outside the phone was created in 1894.

  • Rotary Dial Telephones

    The first rotary dial telephones in the Bell System was in Norfolk, Virginia. Telephones lacked dials and touch-tone pads were no longer made by the Bell System after 1978.

  • The Numbering Plan

    With the rapidly growing number of telephone customers, AT&T and Bell Labs develop the North American Numbering Plan, it assigned telephone numbers to customers in the United States and its territories as well as Canada and some in the Carribean.

  • AT&T First Ringer and Handset Combo

    AT&T introduces the Model 500 telephone, the first that combines a ringer and handset. It's very similar to the classic black rotary phone, but now there was an adjustable volume and later a variety of colors.

  • The TAT 1

    The first transatlantic telephone cable (the TAT-1) is created used from Scotland to Nova Scotia, this provided telephone service between North America and the United Kingdom.

  • Telstar 1

    Communications satellite Telstar 1 is launched by a NASA Delta rocket on July 10, this was able to transmite the first live transatlantic telecast as well as telephone and data signals.

  • 911

    February 16 the first 911 call is made in Haleyville, Alabama. Legislation decided that there should be a single nation wide phone number for citizens to use to report fires and medical emergencies, it was passed by Congress before in 1967

  • Caller ID

    Theodore George “Ted” Paraskevakos was working in Athens, Greece as a communications engineer for SITA,[1] which he created a system that when you recived a call you could tell who the call the was from before answering.

  • First portable cell phone call

    The first portable cell phone call is made by Martin Cooper to his research rival at Bell Labs, Joel Engel. Although mobile phones had been used in cars since the 1940's this was the first phone you could actually carry, he recived patent for his invension in 1975.

  • Touch Screens

    IBM Simon, launched the very first touch screen cell phone that made society more advanced and able to find things fast.

  • Iphone

    The Iphone is created which evovlevs technolgoy into the futuor combining the touch screen phone, with a coumputor, any music you want, and a camera, to creat the ultimate super phone which will allow socitey to practically everything they need and the tips of their fingers