The History of the PHone

By Arnonsha

  • First phone call ever

    First phone call ever
    The first telephone call was made on March 10, 1876 by Alexander Graham Bell. Bell demonstrated his ability to "talk with electricity" by transmitting a call to his assistant, Thomas Watson. The first words transmitted were "Mr Watson, come here. I want to see you."[citation needed] This event has been called Bell's "greatest success", as it demonstrated the first successful use of the telephone.[1] Although it was his greatest success, he refused to have one in his own home because it was some

  • First woman telephone operator

    First woman telephone operator
    Emma Mills Nutt (1860–1915)[1] became the world's first female telephone operator on 1 September 1878 when she started working for the Edwin Holmes Telephone Despatch Company[2] (or the Boston Telephone Dispatch Company[3]) in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

  • First wireless long range radio transmition

    First wireless long range radio transmition
    Marconi established a wireless transmitting station at Marconi House, Rosslare Strand, Co. Wexford in 1901 to act as a link between Poldhu in Cornwall, England and Clifden in Co. Galway, Ireland. He soon made the announcement that on 12 December 1901, using a 500-foot (150 m) kite-supported antenna for reception, the message was received at Signal Hill in St John's, Newfoundland (now part of Canada) signals transmitted by the company's new high-power station at Poldhu, Cornwall.

  • First comercial transatlantic radio service

    First comercial transatlantic radio service
    A regular transatlantic radio-telegraph service was finally begun on 17 October 1907 between Clifden Ireland and Glace Bay, but even after this the company struggled for many years to provide reliable communication to others.

  • Marconi recives Nobel Prize in Physics

    Marconi recives Nobel Prize in Physics
    In 1909, Marconi shared the Nobel Prize in Physics with Karl Braun for his contributions to radio communications

  • The Sinking of the Titanic

    The Sinking of the Titanic
    After leaving Southampton on 10 April 1912, Titanic called at Cherbourg in France and Queenstown (now Cobh) in Ireland before heading west to New York.[2] On 14 April 1912, four days into the crossing and about 375 miles (600 km) south of Newfoundland, she hit an iceberg at 11:40 p.m. ship's time. The collision caused the ship's hull plates to buckle inwards along her starboard side and opened five of her sixteen watertight compartments to the sea; the ship gradually filled with water. Meanwhile

  • The first mobile phone prototype is invented

    The first mobile phone prototype is invented
    While at Motorola in the 1970s, Martin Cooper conceived the first handheld mobile phone (distinct from the car phone) in 1973 and led the team that developed it