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On 10 March 1876, Scottish-born inventor, Alexander Graham Bell uttered the famous words into the telephone to his assistant in the next room: "Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you".
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Almon Strowger invented the first automated telephone switch and dial telephone. This enabled people to be able to directly call a number instead of using an operator.
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AT&T collects more than 4,000measurements of peoples heads to standarize telephone headset dementions.
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The first telephone to have a ringer installedin the modle itself invented. Previously a second ringer box was installed on the wall or the desk.
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Ericsson comes out with the world's first "mobile phone". It weighed 40 kilograms and was about the size of a suitcase.
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One specific person did not invent the smartphone, instead a company did. IBM invented the smartphone. It was invented in 1993.
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The iPhone is a line of smartphones designed and marketed by Apple Inc. It runs Apple's iOS mobile operating system.The first generation iPhone was released on June 29, 2007; the most recent iPhones, the seventh-generation iPhone 5C and iPhone 5S, were introduced on September 10, 2013.