The telephone was made by Alexander Graham Bell a Scottish emigrant. Alexander was inspired to make the telephone in 1876, while working at a school for the deaf. Alexander made the telephone to help communicate with people from a long distance.
(This a picture of Alexander Graham Bell)
(This is a picture of the first phone)
(This is how the phone has changed overtime)
Timeline
- May 10, 1876- The first telephones were patented by Alexander Graham Bell
- 1890-1930- Candlestick was a two part phone one part was the mouth piece and the other piece is the receiver/ ear piece
- 1960-1970- Rotary became popular for rotating the dial and then release
- 1963- The Push Button or Touch Tone became popular form AT&T and the Blue Box to help make long distance calls
- 1960's- Answering Machine helped people leave a message if a person wasn't available
- 1980- Portable phone helped people disconnect from the base and you could talk on the phone from anywhere in the house.
- 1984- Motorola came out with the DynaTAC the first commercially available mobile phone
- Nokia 5110 had a long battery life
- Caller ID helped callers know who was calling
- 1996- Motorola StarTAC the first successful flip phone
- 2003- Sanyo SCP 5300 was one of the first phones to have a camera
- 2009- Palm Treo screen at the top and keypad at the bottom
- Motorola RAZR touchscreen smart phones
- 2007- Blackberry advanced email capabilities
- 2007- IPhone and Android touchscreen smartphones
- 2007- the first Android phone was the HTC Dream
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(On the left is an IPhone 7 and on the right is a Samsung 7)
This invention has now become an innovation because it's still used today and it's improved.
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