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The first telephone was created in March 10, 1876 by Alexander Graham Bell. The Phone weighed 1.75 and was sold for $3,995. -
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This 1879 top box wall set was made with mahogany wood and Viaduct Manufacturing Co. hardware. -
The Gower-Bell telephone was the first type of phone that was used in countries like Spain, Japan and England. -
Not much is known about the manufacturer of this unique wooden cradle desk telephone dated around 1885. -
The Western Electric folding cabinet was used in hotels, telephone booths and private homes. -
The Strowger Automatic Telephone Exchange Company's 10 digit automatic wall telephone was the first to use an automatic rotary motion dialer. -
Made by the Stromberg-Carlson Telephone Mfg. Co., these types of upright desk sets were nicknamed "oil cans" by antique telephone collectors because of its unique shape. -
This corner vanity's elegant frame made by American Hardwood Telephone Cabinet Mfg. Co. The telephone hardware was made by Kellogg Hardware. -
This upright desk set made by the Chicago Telephone Supply Company is often called "potbelly" because of its curvy shape." -
Almon Brown Strowger was a mortician that believed his local operator was directing all business calls to his competitor, who happened to be her husband. Strowger felt that subscribers should have control over calls rather than operators. He patented the automatic telephone exchange a.k.a. dial service in 1891, eliminating the need for an operator to direct calls. -
These S.H. Couch Company desk sets were typically used to interoffice communications. -
This sleek desk top was made by the De Veau Telephone Manufacturing Company. -
The Magnavox anti-noise desk set is an early example of noise-cancellation technology. The phone began to make gain popularity in the military in the 1920s. -
The Frankfurt "Bauhaus" Telephone was made by the Fuld & Co. in Frankfurt, Germany. -
This rotary phone was made by the Hungarian Telephone Factory in Budapest, Hungary. -
A typical 1940s rotary phone who was created by Almon Brown Strowger (The perso who made the rotary dial) -
A typical 1950'S Rotary phone. -
A common phone in the 1960s through 1980s. -
An example of a videophone in the 1960s -
These princess phones were popular from the 1970s through the 1980s. -
One of the first videophones by AT&T. -
A typical Dutch phone in 1975. -
This is how mobile phones looked in the 1980s. -
If you were a teenager in the 1980s, this is one of the best Phones you could've had. -
A typical table-top phone in the 1980s. -
Behold the first commercial line of mobile phones launched in 1983. -
Only really important people and early adopters had one of these cell phones. -
A typical cordless phone in the 1990s. -
The first GSM phones were not very sleek. -
The IBM Simon is widely considered the first smart phone. -
The flip phone craze started with this Motorola cell phone. -
Nokia dominated the wireless market with cell phones like this one. -
Available in Japan, the Sharp J-SH04 was the first camera phone. -
The first BlackBerry with a color screen. -
The Palm Treo was an addictive PDA and phone combination. -
Flip phones were at their peak when the Motorola Razr v3 hit the market. -
The smartphone that arguably changed our lives forever. The iPhone's operating system allowed users to browse full webpages, triangulate positioning with Google maps and easily download apps. -
The T-Mobile G1, also known as the HTC Dream, was the first mobile phone to use Google's Android operating system. -
The highly anticipated Storm was the first BlackBerry with a touchscreen. -
This Windows 7 smartphone introduced Microsoft's "metro" user interface. -
An employee of Softbank mobile phone shop displays Apple's new iPhone 6 (R) and iPhone 6 Plus (L) at the company's Omotesando shop in Tokyo, Sept. 19, 2014. Over 200 customers queued up for Apple's new iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus before opening the shop.