Telephone Timeline

The Telephone was Created

Mar 10, 1876

Alexander Graham Bell created the magical telephone at this time.

First Commercial Telephone

Jun 8, 1877

On this date, the Bell Telephone Company created, well, the Bell Telephone Company! They started commercially producing phones and service.

First Telephone Numbers

Mar 2, 1880

The First Rotary Dial Handset Telephone

Nov 8, 1927

This telephone was the first telephone to be ably to dial- you rotated the dial to type in a number.

The Dial Pad Telephone

Nov 8, 1963

The rotary style dial pad had been replaced with a cooler dial pad. It only had 10 keys, and no star or asterix key.

First Cordless Phones

Mar 2, 1965

The First Mobile Phone

Apr 3, 1973

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.

Mobile Phones Available to the Public

Mar 2, 1982

The US public allowed a cellular mobile phone service to be run.

First Advanced Mobile Phone System

Jan 1, 1983

The first advanced mobile phone system was created by BNell Laboratories.

First Flip Phone

Mar 9, 1986

First Smart Phone

Mar 9, 1992

The first extremely modern mobile phone ! There are many many out there. Some features included touch screens, cameras, etc.

Texting Permitted

Jan 1, 1993

First Phones with Internet Conncetion

Feb 23, 1999

Over 100 000 000 mobile phones owned and sold

Jan 1, 2000

This truly was the start of the technology century.

First iPhone-

Jan 9, 2007

The 1st iPhone was born!
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