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First Telephone Ever
Alexander Graham Bell created the first ever working telephone in 1876. The idea came to him as he was making plans to help deaf people see sound in a graphical way. "What if you could create an electric current that varies to the intensity of the air as sound is produced." This invention was the telephone which he tested in his lab with the famous words "Mr. Watson, come here; I want you.” This simple phrase led to a new age of communication one envisioned since the telegraphs creation. -
Transcontinental Telephone
The transcontinental phone was an improvement over the liquid phone that Bell had created as it was able to call over a special type of vaccum wires that isolated the sounds allowing it to travel across the continent. Higginsons improvement on the telephone were sponsered by AT&T and they became the first carrier to offer the telephone as a commercial product. This change led to the telephone becoming a public phenomenon and a staple of American society. -
Princess Phones
The Princess telephone was an improvment made by Harry Defues in the year of 1959. This phone was a handheld set and was important as it was the smallest telephone and introduced the dialing wheel to phones. It was also one of the first time a phone was marketed on the premise that it looks good. -
Trimline telephone
The trimline telephone is the telephone your gramdmother probably used when she was a kid. The trimline was made by many people at Henery Dreyfuss' firm and was an improvment upon the princess as it was smaller nd had a floating dial system which through its long life cycle eventually evolved to buttons. -
First Mobile Phone
The first moble telephone came from Martin Cooper at Motorola and weighed 1.1 kg this was the standard for phones back in the day as they were intended for buisness men only. This was a hit and propelled Motorola to the forefront of the market. -
Nokia 6110
The Nokia 6110 was the first phone ever to feature anything other than calling. It had a calculator, 3 games, currency converter, and a clock. Not only that it was one of the lightest phones out at the tiime. -
BlackBerry 850
This was the first phone with wifi access and allowed people to send messages on their phones a revolutionary idea at the time considering mail was still as strong as ever back then. In the buisness world this caught on as it was the first phone able to send emails which was important back in the day. -
Modern Phones: iPhone
Steve Jobs unveils a phone smaller than his hand that is capable of installing apps and personalized backgrounds. This had never been done before the idea of a phone not being a premade piece of hardware had never crossed anyones mind and it became a phenomenon and till today is still putting up massive sales yearly.
