How Phones Have Changed

By hindmanclass

  • Telephone invented

  • First automatic dial system

  • First coin telephone installed in Connecticut

  • Bell System completes US continental phone line so everybody was connected

  • Teletypewriter was invented so the deaf could use the telephone

  • Transatlantic cables were laid so Americans could call people who live in Europe

  • Videophones are invented

  • Motorola demonstrates the cell phone to the FCC

  • IBM PC is introduced so Internet could use telephone lines to transmit info through computers

  • Pocket cellular telephone is introduced by Motorola

  • John Casey invented the IPhone