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The first telephone
Bell's telephone transmitter (microphone) consisted of a double electromagnet, in front of which a membrane, stretched on a ring, carried an oblong piece of soft iron cemented to its middle. A funnel-shaped mouthpiece directed the voice sounds -
Box telephone
First phones were heavy wooden boxes that were mounted on the wall. -
The first commercial switchboard
In order to make a phone call people had to contact a opperator to connect their call -
Candlestick Phone
Popular from the 1890's to the 1920's
Ah ha moment: not attached to the wall -
Cradle phone
First desk top cradle phone
Ah ha moment: mouthpiece and ear piece were together
effect: candlestick phones stoped being manufactured -
Push button phone
First push button phone started to replace rotary dial phones -
Portable phone
invented by Martin Cooper
Ah ha moment: allowed people to go in different rooms while on the phone -
First flip phone
Popular in the 1980s the clamshell flip phone was the first phone to be able to fit in a pocket it also had longer range then the portable phone. -
I phone
Started in 2004 by a group of 100 employes it was regected but in 2007 the newest I phone is the I phone 6s plus -
The phone of the future
The X phone this phone will be hands free and all you have to do is think of who you want to call and it will call it can even go to outer space
