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Robert Hooke creates an acoustic string telephone that conveys sounds over a taut extended wire by mechanical vibrations
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Alexander Graham Bell creates the first phone. The first words spoken via telephone were from Bell to his assistant Watson, saying "Mr. Watson--come here--I want to see you."
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On this date, the Bell Telephone Company created, well, the Bell Telephone Company! They started commercially producing phones and service.
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The Bell Telephone Company, a common law joint stock company, was organized in Boston, Massachusetts on July 9, 1877, by Alexander Graham Bell's father-in-law Gardiner Greene Hubbard, who also helped organize a sister company — the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company. The Bell Telephone Company was started on the basis of holding "potentially valuable patents.
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world's first wireless telephone call on Bell and Tainter's photophone (distant precursor to fiber-optic communications) from the Franklin School in Washington, D.C. to the window of Bell's laboratory, 213 meters away.
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The world's first international telephone call is made between St. Stephen, New Brunswick, Canada, and Calais, Maine, United States
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First transcontinental telephone call (3600 miles), with Thomas Augustus Watson at 333 Grant Avenue in San Francisco receiving a call from Alexander Graham Bell at 15 Dey Street in New York City, facilitated by a newly invented vacuum tube amplifier.
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world's first videophone call via an electro-mechanical AT&T unit, from Washington, D.C. to New York City, by then-Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover.
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This telephone was the first telephone to be ably to dial- you rotated the dial to type in a number.
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December, W. Rae Young and Douglas H. Ring, Bell Labs engineers, proposed hexagonal cells for provisioning of mobile telephone service.
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The Princess telephone is introduced in the Bell System in the United States.
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UKs first public car radio-telephone service opens in Liverpool and Manchester
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In 1960 in Sweden, the first automatic mobile phone system for cars (Mobile Telephone System A) was launched.
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The rotary style dial pad had been replaced with a cooler dial pad. It only had 10 keys, and no star or asterix key.
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Martin Cooper is considered the inventor of the mobile phone. You could talk on this phone for 35 minutes before recharging it for 10 hours. The only things you could do with this cell phone were dial, talk, and listen.
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The first flip cell phone, the Motorola MicroTAC9800X, is created.
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The IBM Simon becomes the first smartphone on the market.
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The Motorola StarTAC is created, and it helps start the cell phone craze.
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The Sharp J-SHO4 becomes the first cell phone with a camera built in.
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The Blackberry 5810 is created, revolutionizing the telephone industry as well as introducing the world to the BlackBerry Brand.
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The first iPhone is created by Steve Jobs and Apple. The iPhone allowed for your phone to be an iPod, a telephone, and was able to have games known as "apps."
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The T-Mobile G1 is created, becoming the first phone to use Google's Android operating system.
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Pranav Mistry and his studies at MIT found that through the use of a simple camera, it could bring the digital world to the physical world. He came out with this study in 2009, but has not been released to the public.
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The LG Flutter will have an opportunity to be featured in a future blockbuster movie. The device opens up like a fan, as you can see in the image above and has a flexible OLED touch screen display that scrolls radically.
