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Phones Over Time

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  • First Ever Phone Call

    First Ever Phone Call
    The first words were spoken by Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone, when he made the first call on March 10, 1876, to his assistant, Thomas Watson: "Mr. Watson--come here--I want to see you."
  • Outdoor Phone Was Created

    Outdoor Phone Was Created
    The very first permanent outdoor telephone wire was completed. It stretched a distance of just three miles. This was closely followed in the U.S. by the worlds first commercial telephone service.
  • Numbers Not Names

    Numbers Not Names
    Subscribers began to be designated by numbers and not their names.
  • Battery System

    Battery System
    Common battery system developed by Hammond V. Hayes, allows one central battery to power all telephones on an exchange, rather than relying on each units own battery.
  • Motorola-FIRST to produce handheld phone

    Motorola-FIRST to produce handheld phone
    Martin Cooper, a Motorola researcher and executive, made the first mobile telephone call from handheld subscriber equipment, placing a call to Dr. Joel S. Engel of Bell Labs, his rival.
  • Cellphone(NEED)

    Cellphone(NEED)
    By about the 1990's cellphones became a must need.Everyone nationwide just had to have them.
  • First IPhone made

    First IPhone made
    The first ever IPhone was made and released by the worldwide Apple store.