Unknown 4

1970's Telephone Timeline

  • 1st Cell Phone Created

    1st Cell Phone Created
    NOTE: UNKNOWN EXACT DATE-JAN 1ST USED AS DEFAULT
    FCC created the 1st telephone in the world (the Brik Phone)
    SOURCE: www.greatachievements.org/?id=3625
  • Period: to

    The 70's

  • 1st Mobile Call Between Motorola AT&T

    1st Mobile Call Between Motorola AT&T
    NOTE: UNKNOWN EXACT DATE-JAN 1ST USED AS DEFAULT
    Martin Cooper (Motorola) made the the 1st cell phone call between his rival, Joe Engel (AT&T), and himself.
    SOURCE: www.ideafinder.com/history/inventions/telephone.htm
  • 1st Domestic Sattilites Launched

    1st Domestic Sattilites Launched
    NOTE: UNKNOWN EXACT DATE-JAN 1ST USED AS DEFAULT
    the world's first domestic sattilites are put in operation for phone uses
    SOURCE: www.telephonetribute.com/timeline.html
  • U.S. Military starts using Fiber Optics

    U.S. Military starts using Fiber Optics
    NOTE: UNKNOWN EXACT DATE-JAN 1ST USED AS DEFAULT
    The US military begins using fiberoptics as communication, starting with the installation on USS Little Rock (Fiber-optics is a digital way of transporting sound and data without being as interfered as regular cables, and lighter than regular cables)
    SOURCE: www.greatachievements.org/?id=3625
  • Fiber-Optics open to the public

    Fiber-Optics open to the public
    NOTE: UNKNOWN EXACT DATE-JAN 1ST USED AS DEFAULT
    AT&T introduce Fiber-Optics to the public (it carried over 600 channels of telephone, data, and video)
    SOURCE: www.corp.att.com
  • TAT-1 Retires

    TAT-1 Retires
    NOTE: UNKNOWN EXACT DATE-JAN 1ST USED AS DEFAULT
    After over 130 years of service, TAT-1, the world's first trans-oceanic telephone cable, was retired
    SOURCE: www.telephonetribute.com/timeline.html
  • Public Cell Phone Tests Begin

    Public Cell Phone Tests Begin
    NOTE: UNKNOWN EXACT DATE-JAN 1ST USED AS DEFAULT
    In Chicago, cell phones were given at random to the people there to test the cell phone uses in everyday life
    Source: www.greatachievements.org/?id=3625
  • Japan's 1st cellular network

    Japan's 1st cellular network
    NOTE: UNKNOWN EXACT DATE-JAN 1ST USED AS DEFAULT
    In Japan, their 1st cell phone network was set up. Now phone service was starting to spread all around the world!
    Source: www.ideafinder.com/history/inventions/telephone.htm