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the beginning
in the 1870s Alexander Graham Bell and Elisha Gray both made a desgin to make the first telephone. .Bell and Gray got into a legal battle over who invented the telephone and Bell won -
the secound telephone the Switchboard
it was popular in 1876 ,when people made phone calls to friends or family and you would call the operator to connect you to who you wanted to ta -
the rotary phone
in 1889 the rotary phone was invented by Almon B.Stowger -
the 1910 phone
they are thick and on the side is what you would use to listin to what the person on the other phone says and thr diles are right in the middle and you talk on the top -
1920 phones
are alot like the phones in 1910 but a lot smaller and you work these phones the same way; these are hand held and have a few color verities -
the 1930s
now these phones are a little bigger andwhere you talk to the person has a cord and to diel you have to go aroung the cicrle once and do that with every number -
1940 phones
the phones are getting bigger and there is a coed connected to the phone into the wall -
the 1950s phones
they are taller and the style of the phone changed compleatly. the dilles are on the top -
the 1960s phones
these phones come in multipul colors and where you talk and listen to thr person os higher up ans the rest of the phone has the diaks and they are just numbers -
the 70s phones
these phones have a cord and they look the rotary phone but there buttons you have to push down to dile and the phone is connected to a cord in the wall and the cord goes a certin length -
the 80s cell phones
now is when people got phones but they were so thick all they could do is call -
cell phones of the 1990s
phones are getting popular and people would start getting rid of land lines and just having cell phones. People started texting more and having a personal phones -
current day phones
now many new phones are about 1 inch long and you can text and call and can surf the web and almost do anything on you cell phone and are like little computers
