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Elisha Gray and Alexander Graham Bell both independently desingned a the telephone. This chanced society by being able to transmite speech electronicaly. http://inventors.about.com/od/bstartinventors/a/telephone.htm
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In 1872 Elisha Gray founded Western Electric which was a manufaturing company for telephones. this was important to society because they had started to manufature the the telepones,
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Bell used a bi-directional telephone that was able to transmite. Indistinct but vocielike sounds were herd. however speech was not very clear. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_telephone
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Thomas Edison creates the first carbon microphone. this changed society by adding a mircophone to the telephone that was better then the one Bell had first installed on his telephone. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microphone
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Bell Telephone company merges with a New England Telephone Company to form a national Bell telephone company. theodore Vail takes over. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Vail
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Almon Strowger presents the first Strowger switch and the first aautomatictelephone exchange. this chaged society b allowing telephone switches to make telephone calls. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_telephone_exchange#Pre-digital_automatic_exchanges
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in 1919 AT&T conduct measurment of over 4000 people heads togive the best standard demension of a head set. this help society by variaty in head set microphone parts.
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On March 7 ,1926 the first phone call was completed from London to New York City. This was a change in society by being able to call different continents. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_telephone
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The Rotary dial was made and this was important to society because it allowd phone calls to be made by dialing actual phone numbers. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotary_dial
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In 1935 the first ever phone call was completed arround the world this was sagnificant becasue now you could call all around the world.
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In 1941 mulit-fecuencey dialing introduced operators in Baltimore. This was sagnifican because operators ran the telephone industry.
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In 1946 numbering plans were getting started with also developing area codes. This was sagificant because it allowed for nations
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This was done so people could call long distances. The impact that this had on society was that you can call long distance. the down side was cost more money and signal would not always be the best.
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In 1995 there were telephone cabels linked from the United States to Europe. This was done to preform better cell phone connection. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TAT-1
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In 1963 the fisrt button phone was invented by the Bell Systems/Western elctric. These were released in towns such as Pencilvania and Carnigge http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:ATTtelephone-large.jpg
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In 1965 the first satallite was put in space and it offered 240 cirrcuts of one TV signal. It was a geosynchronous communications satalliite. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelsat_I
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The first cordless telephone which was a home phone was invented in 1968. This was a change in society because it allowed people call and not have to sit or stand by the phone. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cordless_telephone
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Caller ID was invented by Carolyn Doughtry. this was a change in society that allowed a name to be accociated with the phone number and also u can see who is calling. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caller_ID
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The fisrt flip phone was created in 1982. this change society by making the phone smaller and easier to carry around.
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the iPhone was a phone that provided internet, text massageing, Music and more. It was also touch screen. This changed society in many differnt ways and the iphone is awesome. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone_(original)
