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Robert Hooke created the first acoustic telephone in 1672. Very much like the two-soup-can toys you made as a child, Hooke found that sound could be sent over a wire or string from a mouthpiece on one side to an earpiece on the other. -
Samuel B. Morse discovered that you could transmit messages by pressing down or releasing a button in intervals to transmit a pattern of sounds. This was known as Morse code. -
Alexander Graham Bell was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, on March 3, 1847.
In addition to the telephone, Bell worked on hundreds of projects throughout his career and received patents in various fields. Some of his other notable inventions were:
- The metal detector:
- Graphophone
- Audiometer
Bell died on August 2, 1922, at the age of 75 in Nova Scotia, Canada.
I leave here on of his most famouse frases:
“Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds.” -
On March 7, 1876, Bell was granted his telephone patent. Granting him the title of the inventor of the telephone -
Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone, make the first call to his assistant, The first words where "Thomas Watson: "Mr. Watson come here I want to see you.". -
In 1889, the coin-operated telephone was patented by William Gray of Hartford, Connecticut. Gray's payphone was first installed and used in the Hartford Bank. Unlike pay phones today, users of Gray's phone paid after they had finished their call. -
The first telephone service from the U.S. to the U.K. was set up in January 1927. The first phones were radio phones, but there were fading and interference issues. Three minutes of time on these phones cost nearly $10. -
Worlds first commercial mobile phone service put into operation. It could link moving vehicles to a telephone network via radio waves. -
In June 1946, a telephone call was made from an automobile-based phone for the first time. It wasn't a very large mobile network, due in part to the high cost of installation. -
Microwave radio technology used for the first time for long distance phone calls. -
Son of Margaret Elaine and Jacob Francis Wozniak, an engineer who worked for Lockheed. He is of Polish and Swiss-German descent from his father, and German and Irish from his mother. At age twelve, he built an addition and subtraction machine that won an award at a science expo.
Iconic frase:
"Never trust a computer that you cannot throw out the window" -
American computer scientist and businessman. Father of the first personal computer and founder of Apple Computer, probably the most innovative company in the sector, this computer wizard was one of the most influential of the vertiginous technological escalation in which today's world still lives, contributing decisively to the popularization of the computing.
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The first transatlantic telephone cable makes calls much more affordable than the radio telephone system it helped to replace. -
The Communications Satellite Act is passed, allowing the use of satellites in telecommunications. -
The development of fibre optic cables during this decade, offered the potential to carry much larger volumes of calls than satellite or microwaves. -
Huge advances in micro electronic technology over the last two decades have enabled the development of cellular (mobile) phones to advance at a truly astonishing rate. A cellular (mobile) phone has its own central transmitter allowing it to receive seamless transmissions as it enters and exits a cell.
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The first automated commercial cellular network, called 1G Generation, is launched in Japan. At the same time, the Nordic Mobile Telephone system is established in Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden. -
The world's first commercial text message was sent out in 1992. It was written and sent by the employees of a company known as Logica CMG. -
The first smartphones came out for the public to buy. IBM created one called Simon, which had a touch screen and could send and receive faxes. -
A company called Iridium puts a canopy of 64 satellites is into place. They also made the first hand-held satellite phones, replacing "bag" phones with ones that were much less cumbersome. This move would lead to development of the modern smartphone. -
After lots of years of the iconic brand, Blackberry phones stoped working on January 4, signaling the end of an era for the iconic cellphone