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Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone and he receives two patents. With two financial bankers found the company that becomes AT&T.
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The first patent for a rotary dial was granted to Almon Brown Strowger
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an inventor named Reginald Fessenden made the first wireless telephone call and he was the first to transmit the human voice via radio waves, sending a signal from one radio tower to another.
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The first service created just for mobile phones opened up in St. Louis, MO, but the service didn't work well and it didn't last.
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Martin Cooper led a team that designed the first practical cell phone.
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Developers in Europe came up with a way to send written messages over the phone. It was called texting.
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The smart phone could send and receive emails and messages, but it didn't have a speaker or microphone. This meant it needed a headset to work
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Apple released its first iphone and it changed the cellular industry. It featured a touch screen and allowed users to do almost anything they could do from a home computer, which basically changed the way people lived.