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Product Evolution

By l.boyd

  • Alexander Graham Bell Telephone

    Alexander Graham Bell Telephone
    Invented and patented in 1876 by Alexander Graham Bell. This product helped long distance communication. This sparked the innovation for telephones.

  • Rotary Phone

    Rotary Phone
    Invented in 1896 by John and Charles Erickson. The rotary phone made it easier to type phone numbers in. This was an improvement on Bell's telephone and made long distance communication easier.

  • Cordless Telephone

    Cordless Telephone
    Invented by a jazz musician in 1965. She could not market her idea because it interfered with aircraft communications. She sold it to a manufacturer who modified it for practical use. This made it so we could carry around the phone instead of being bound by wire.

  • Motorola Mobile Phone

    Motorola Mobile Phone
    This phone was invented by Motorola in 1989. This revolutionized the way phones are ever since. This phone was the first mobile phone. It used a clamshell design.

  • Smartphone

    Smartphone
    The first smartphone was created in 1992. This was good, but it was nothing compared to the smartphones coming. The first iPhone was revealed in 2007 by Apple. This completely changed the way the world worked. It put everything on our computers, clocks, books, mp3 players, and telephones into one.