TIMELINE (I) - TELEGRAPHS AND TELEPHONES

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    TELEGRAPH

    Was developed by Samuel Morse.
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    Multiplexing

    Allowed people to send message using a single cable.
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    Antonio Meucci

    Was the first person to transmit the voice across a distance using an electrical device, but finally he couldn't patent his invention.
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    Transcontinental telegraph

    Pony Express was remplaced by this telegraph
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    The patent

    16 years later he obtained a patent for the telephone.
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    MOBILE PHONE

    It was made by Martin Cooper
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    Commercial mobile phone

    The first commercial mobile phone that arrived in US and Japan,
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    Popularitzation

    The popularitzation of mobile phone began in the 1990s
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    THE FIXED TELEPHONE

    The US Congress recognised the true inventor was an unknow Italian immigrant called Antonio Meucci.