Telephone

Invented by Alexander Graham Bell

Jan 2, 1876

Significance: Allowed communication between people at different locations.

First complete sentence of speech transmitted by a telephone in Boston

Mar 10, 1876

Significane: Beginning to the many hours of talking that would follow.

Telephone subscribers began to be designated by numbers rather than names.

Mar 10, 1879

Significance: allowed more subscribers per switching station.

The first automatic dial system was patented by a Kansas City undertaker.

Mar 10, 1891

Significance; Switchboard operators were no longer necessary to make a telephone call.

Opening of long distance telephone service, New York to Chicago, 950 miles.

Mar 10, 1892

Significance: People could now communicate over long distances.

Bell System completes a U.S. transcontinental telephone line.

Mar 10, 1915

Significance: Everyone in US was connected and able to communicate across the country.

Opening of Second Trans-continental telephone line, southern route.

Mar 10, 1923

Significance: more connections and lines available.

Opening of transatlantic telephone service between New York and London, 3500 miles.

Mar 10, 1927

Significance: people can now make calls over seas.

First commercial mobile telephone service became available in St. Louis, Missouri (USA).

Mar 10, 1946

Significance: People can now purchase mobile telephone service which would follow by a highly competitve industry.

AT&T comes out with the first radio-car-phones that can be used only on the highway between New York and Boston; they are known as push-to-talk phones.

Mar 10, 1947

Significance: People can use phones wirelessly on a stratch of highway, however there is significant interfereance.

Time-division multiplexing is applied to telephony.

Mar 10, 1950

Significance: people were now charged by minutes for placing calls.

Xerox fax introduced

Mar 10, 1966

Significance: important documents could be sent and printed at another location.

Motorola demonstrates the cellular telephone to the FCC.

Mar 10, 1972

Significance: Wireless calling is now available.

Introduction of text messaging

Mar 10, 1993

Significance: people can now quickly send short messages between mobile devices.

Introduction of Blutooth

Mar 10, 1998

Significance: Allows people to talk hand free. Considered a safer method for drivers.

Introduction of the Blackberry

Mar 10, 1999

Significance: the beginning to one of the biggest phone models capable of emailing, internet access, calendars, etc.

Nokia 7110- first phone with WAP Mobile Web

Mar 10, 1999

Significance: internet access available mobily

First camera phone

Mar 10, 2001

Significance: allows people to take pictures and save them on mobile devices.

Introduction to 3G high speed data

Mar 10, 2001

Significance: Allowed much quicker communication through various methods. It was like having a mini laptop in your pocket.

Apple releases the IPhone

Mar 10, 2007

Significance: one of the most popular, high tech, and quick phones available.