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Michael Faraday was able to show that the vibrations on metal objects could be transformed to electrical signals.
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Johann Philip Reis was the first known inventor who created a device that could change sounds to electrical signals and then back to sound once again.
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Bell gets the idea for a telephone while working on telegraph machines.
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The Bell Telephone Company was created and the first telephone exchange was developed in Connecticut.
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The first telephone exchange was made in London, England.
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ATT & T was formed for long distance communication; this was more commonly known then as the American Telephone and Telegraph Company.
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William Gray created the first pay telephone, which people would use by putting coins into slots.
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Police departments began to test one-way communication systems in cars.
In 1933 2 way communication devices were used in patrol cars in Bayonne, NJ. -
This was when the first mobile telephone call was made from a car.
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The person who thought of cellular telephone service had the idea during this year but the technology did not yet exist. The name of this genius was Dr. Ring.
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Push button, or touch-tone telephones were first seen and sold.
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The first commercially developed Picture phones were shown.
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This was the year of the first cell phone call from a Motorola employee to an ATT&T employee.
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Japan was the site of the first network for mobile phones
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The first commercial mobile telephone system was opened.
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Starting from 1984, there are many different types of phones and companies that manufacture these machines, such as Apple and the new iPhone. There is Nokia with the unbreakable phone, new touch scrreen phones, in all different shapes and sizes. However, they wouldn't be here if it wasn't for an idea that came from the mind of a genius in 1831!
