Call Me, Maybe

Samuel Morse Sends First Telepgraph

May 24, 1844

Beginning the Telegraph The First Telegraph

First Sounds Through Wire

Jun 2, 1875

Alexander Graham Bell discovers sound over a wire

"Mr Watson--Come Here--I Want To See You"

Mar 10, 1876

Birth of Telecommunications Alexander Graham Bell speaks the first words through a telephone to his assistant Thomas A. Watson.

Payphones

Aug 14, 1889

The Payphone William Gray invents the first public coin-operated telephone.

"Vest Pocket Telephone"

Apr 29, 1906

[ Charles E. Alden claims to have invented first mobile phone](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_E._Alden)

First Mobile Call

Jun 17, 1946

Car Phone Mobile Phones

Cordless Telephone

Jun 29, 1969

Pall to Sweigert George Sweigert of Cleveland, Ohio is awarded a patent for the first "full duplex wireless communications apparatus".

Apple's First "iPhone"

Oct 9, 1983

First iPhone?

The Much Awaited Telephone Of All...

Sep 21, 2012

And now we have the iPhone5!