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The Telephone

By Pauetis14

  • First acoustic telephone

    First acoustic telephone
    Robert Hooke created the first acoustic telephone in 1672. Very much like the two-soup-can toys you made as a child, Hooke found that sound could be sent over a wire or string from a mouthpiece on one side to an earpiece on the other.

  • Morse Code

    Morse Code
    Samuel B. Morse discovered that you could transmit messages by pressing down or releasing a button in intervals to transmit a pattern of sounds. This was known as Morse code.
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    Alexander Graham Bell

    Alexander Graham Bell was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, on March 3, 1847.
    In addition to the telephone, Bell worked on hundreds of projects throughout his career and received patents in various fields. Some of his other notable inventions were:
    - The metal detector:
    - Graphophone
    - Audiometer
    Bell died on August 2, 1922, at the age of 75 in Nova Scotia, Canada.
    I leave here on of his most famouse frases:
    “Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds.”

  • Thelephone patent

    Thelephone patent
    On March 7, 1876, Bell was granted his telephone patent. Granting him the title of the inventor of the telephone

  • The First Telephone Call March 10, 1876

    The First Telephone Call March 10, 1876
    Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone, make the first call to his assistant, The first words where "Thomas Watson: "Mr. Watson come here I want to see you.".

  • Pay Phones

    Pay Phones
    In 1889, the coin-operated telephone was patented by William Gray of Hartford, Connecticut. Gray's payphone was first installed and used in the Hartford Bank. Unlike pay phones today, users of Gray's phone paid after they had finished their call.

  • The first telephone service from the U.S. to the U.K.

    The first telephone service from the U.S. to the U.K.
    The first telephone service from the U.S. to the U.K. was set up in January 1927. The first phones were radio phones, but there were fading and interference issues. Three minutes of time on these phones cost nearly $10.

  • Worlds first commercial mobile phone service

    Worlds first commercial mobile phone service
    Worlds first commercial mobile phone service put into operation. It could link moving vehicles to a telephone network via radio waves.

  • First call from an automobile

    First call from an automobile
    In June 1946, a telephone call was made from an automobile-based phone for the first time. It wasn't a very large mobile network, due in part to the high cost of installation.

  • Microwave Radio Technology

    Microwave Radio Technology
    Microwave radio technology used for the first time for long distance phone calls.
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    Steve Wozniak

    Son of Margaret Elaine and Jacob Francis Wozniak, an engineer who worked for Lockheed. He is of Polish and Swiss-German descent from his father, and German and Irish from his mother. At age twelve, he built an addition and subtraction machine that won an award at a science expo.
    Iconic frase:
    "Never trust a computer that you cannot throw out the window"
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    Steve Jobs

    American computer scientist and businessman. Father of the first personal computer and founder of Apple Computer, probably the most innovative company in the sector, this computer wizard was one of the most influential of the vertiginous technological escalation in which today's world still lives, contributing decisively to the popularization of the computing.

  • The first transatlantic telephone

    The first transatlantic telephone
    The first transatlantic telephone cable makes calls much more affordable than the radio telephone system it helped to replace.

  • Stellites in telecomunications

    Stellites in telecomunications
    The Communications Satellite Act is passed, allowing the use of satellites in telecommunications.

  • Fibre Optic

    Fibre Optic
    The development of fibre optic cables during this decade, offered the potential to carry much larger volumes of calls than satellite or microwaves.
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    Microelectronic

    Huge advances in micro electronic technology over the last two decades have enabled the development of cellular (mobile) phones to advance at a truly astonishing rate. A cellular (mobile) phone has its own central transmitter allowing it to receive seamless transmissions as it enters and exits a cell.

  • The first automated commercial cellular network

    The first automated commercial cellular network
    The first automated commercial cellular network, called 1G Generation, is launched in Japan. At the same time, the Nordic Mobile Telephone system is established in Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden.

  • First world's text message

    First world's text message
    The world's first commercial text message was sent out in 1992. It was written and sent by the employees of a company known as Logica CMG.

  • First comercial smartphones

    First comercial smartphones
    The first smartphones came out for the public to buy. IBM created one called Simon, which had a touch screen and could send and receive faxes.

  • satellites en masse in space

    satellites en masse in space
    A company called Iridium puts a canopy of 64 satellites is into place. They also made the first hand-held satellite phones, replacing "bag" phones with ones that were much less cumbersome. This move would lead to development of the modern smartphone.

  • BlackBerry Stop working

    BlackBerry Stop working
    After lots of years of the iconic brand, Blackberry phones stoped working on January 4, signaling the end of an era for the iconic cellphone