1993 – Nokia Releases First Text Messaging Phone This prototype consisted of a mobile phone, pager, fax machine and PDA. A smartphone is essentially a mobile phone with an advanced mobile operating system that combines features of personal computer operating system with other features useful for mobile or handheld use. The world’s first smartphone is invented. 1993 – World’s First Smartphone is Invented Six years later, the first commercial cell phone becomes available to the public. After 30 minutes of use, the device had to be re-charged for around 10 hours. The original prototype model weighed a total of 1.1kgs – that’s about the weight of 2 packs of ground beef. Motorola produced the first handheld mobile phone – prior to this, mobile telephones were only installed in cars and other vehicles. Martin Cooper invents the first fully working cell phone. 1973 – Martin Cooper Invents First Working Cell Phone These devices had dual-tone-multi-frequency signalling, which uses voice-frequency bands over telephone lines – this became know as ‘Touch-Tone” and consisted of a telephone keypad, upgrading on the rotary dial. The push-button telephone meant that instead of dialling keys, buttons were used to make a direct call to another telephone device.
The world’s first push button telephone is released. So it was an immobile, mobile telephone… 1963 – World’s First Push-Button Telephone is Released The sheer weight and size of the device, ironically, meant that is was virtually immobile. The SRA/Ericsson MTA weighed around 88 pounds and was roughly the size of a suitcase. The world’s first mobile telephone is invented. 1956 – World’s First Mobile Telephone Invented We start to see things get a little more compact – The Model 302 telephone included the ringer and network circuitry in the same telephone housing. The first telephone to have a ringer installed. Electrical impulses generated from the spring action dial were encoded into a specific digit – clever stuff. The “Rotary dial” enabled people to make direct calls using a combination of digits laid out on a rotary finger wheel that was attached to the face of the telephone. The first dial telephone becomes widely available. 1905 – First Dial Telephone Becomes Widely Available
Watson, come here, I want to see you.” This was without doubt the biggest breakthrough in the history of the telephone. The first words ever to be spoken through a telephone cable were “Mr. This was the first ever device that allowed people to have direct verbal contact across large distance. Bell patented his invention, which became “The Telephone”. Building on the prior developments made by others, Alexander Graham Bell invented the first device that produced and transmitted clearly distinguishable replication of the human voice. 1876 – Alexander Graham Bell Improves on Reis’ DesignĪlexander Graham Bell improves the Johann Philipp Reis design and patents it. Named “the Reis Telephone”, was a device that captured sound and converted it into electrical impulses, which were then transmitted via electrical wires to another device that transformed these pulses into recognizable sounds – similar to the originals acoustic source. Johann Philipp Reis invents the first working example of a telephone. 1861 – Johann Philipp Reis Invents First Working Telephone Sound was broadcasted over an extended wire by mechanical vibrations. It was essentially an acoustic, non-electrical speech-transmitting device made of two twin cans.
The “Tin Can Telephone” or “String Telephone” is the first, and most basic telephone that has ever existed. Robert Hooke undertakes first serious experiments using cans and string. The telephones we use today are a far cry from the pioneering efforts of Bell and Reiss, and to celebrate the evolution of one of mankind’s greatest inventions we’ve put together a brief guide to the fascinating history of telephony. When Alexander Graham Bell patented his improved version of Johann Philipp Reis’ early telephone design, few could have foreseen the impact it would have on how we communicate with each other.
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