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Telephones Alexander Graham Bell
telephones have changed dramatically since alexander graham bell spoke the first words into a telephone on march 10 1876 .Overall they've improved since then ,but the road wasnt always smooth .Here a look back at the most important advances in telephone technology and some of the worst. -
CandleStick
Popular from the 1890 to the 1930 the candlestick phone was separated into two peieces .The mouth piece formed the candlestick part and the receiver was placed by your ear during the phone call .This style died out in the 30s when phone manufactures started combining the mouth piece and receiver into a single unit .Thankfully. -
Rotary
The rotary phone became popular to dial you would rotate the dial to the number you wanted and then release based on my limited interaction with rotary dial phones this must have been incredibly tedious as push button phones gained popularity in the 1960 amd 70s the rotary dial phone thankfully began slow death. -
Answering Machine
The answering machine transformed phone behavior, allowing callers to leave a message if no one was on the other end. Not popular until the 1960s, these phone accessories originally used cassette tapes to record messages. In the past 15 years, digital answering machines replaced the miniature cassette tapes, and in the past 10 years, we all just use our cell phones voicemail. -
First Touch Phone
in 1963 at&t introduced touch tone which allow to use a keypad to dial numbers and make phone calls. Each key would transmit a certain frequency, signaling to the telephone operator which number you wanted to call. While much better than the rotary dial, these dial tones were subject to spoofing by what were called “blue boxes.” Using a blue box, you could make free long-distance phone calls. -
Nokia 5110
One of many classic Nokia candybar-style phones,the Nokia 5110 was rugged and had a long battery life.More importantly ,you could play Snake on its 47x84 pixel screen.The 5110 was also customizable with replaceable face plates. -
Motorola DynaTAC
Motorola DynaTAC 8000x was the first commerically available mobile phone in 1973 martin cooper made the first cell phone call ever with a predecessor of this beast at 1.75 pounds this phone had 30 minutes of talk time and cost a not so modest $3,995. -
Portable Phone
Portable cordless phones were the phone equivalent of the tv remote you were no longer physically attached to your phone basic station beginning in the 1980s portable phones were like a small scale cell phone you could talk on your phone anywhere in your house.Now that you can talk on your phone anywhere in the world.Portable phone seem quaint but at the time a well placed portable phone could save you a trip across the house. -
Motorola StarTAC
The Motorola StarTAC was the first successful flip phone, and in many ways, the first successful consumer cell phone. Introduced in 1996, Motorola eventually sold 60 million StarTACs. Weighing in at just 3.1 ounces, and combined with its innovative clamshell design, the StarTAC was a milestone in the trend toward smaller and smaller cell phones. -
Sanyo SCP–5300
Released in 2003, the Sanyo SCP–5300 was one of the first phones to include a camera. It was already clear that digital cameras would replace film cameras, but it wasn’t clear that a camera could fit in a phone. By today’s standards, the SCP–5300’s camera is pathetic. The SCP–5300 could take 640 × 480 pixel photos and store 10 to 15 of them. It had a built-in flash with a range of only three feet. Still, this phone broke ground, and today it is clear how central cameras are to our
