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Robert Hooke created the first “acoustic” telephone in 1672, discovering sound can be sent over a string/wire.
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August 1858 Cyrus Field connected England and the US by telegraph. Laying the first cable to cross the Atlantic ocean
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August 1867 Samuel B Morse discovered transmitting messages using buttons, by pressing and releasing them, now known as Morse code.
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Alexander graham bell attempted transmitting speech electronically, and invented the telephone. Bell was competing with another inventor, Elisha Gray, which eventually struck a legal battle, in which Bell ended up winning. The first words ever spoken over the phone, was “Mr. Watson, come here; I want you.” Bell was summoning his assistant. Many people considered Bells invention to be nothing more than a toy, but as we know now it was revolutionary.
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Bell made the first ever coast-to-coast phone call in January, this is the first electronic long distance call
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AT&T created a video telephone called the iconophone, which didn’t see much commercial success
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The first automated commercial cellular network is launched in japan
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The first radio telephone calls are made from the US to Japan
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a rival at bell labs places the first cellular mobile call, the phone took an entire year to recharge and the max talk time was a measly 30 minutes
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Motorola releases the DynaTac mobile telephone in 1983, known as “The Brick”
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After releasing “The Brick” Motorola develops the lightest cell phone on the market, called the MicroTac and weighs 12 ounces
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the world’s first text message was sent by the employees of a company known as Logica CMG. The message said "Merry Christmas"
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The first smartphones were released to the public!
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Apple releases the first iPhone.
