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While Italian innovator Antonio Meucci is credited with inventing the first basic phone in 1849, and Frenchman Charles Bourseul devised a phone in 1854, Alexander Graham Bell won the first U.S. patent for the device in 1876.
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This phone model was popular in the late 1890s until the 1920s. The candlestick phone featured a mouthpiece at the top of the stand and a receiver that was held to the ear during a call.
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To dial a number, the user puts a finger in the corresponding finger hole and rotates the dial clockwise until it reaches the finger stop. The user then pulls out the finger, and a spring in the dial returns it to the resting position.
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The push-button telephone is a telephone that has buttons or keys for dialing a telephone number, in contrast to having a rotary dial as in earlier telephone instruments.
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The touch-tone system uses audible tones for each of the digits zero through nine.
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Digital signals allowed the phones to be more secure and decreased eavesdropping
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On September 21, 1983, Motorola made history when the FCC approved the 8000X, the world's first commercial portable cell phone.
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Mobile phones used in today's world allow users to send and receive text messages, emails, photos and video as well as access the Internet, play games, listen to music, use GPS and more.
