History Of Mobile Phone

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Communication is the most important way to connect with people. Nowadays, we can do this easily and convenient with many types of communication technology, for sure it must include mobile phone which is very popular and necessary. In spite of using phone almost everyday, not everyone learns clearly about the way it was made. History of the phone is a long-term development process with many memorable milestones which marks an obvious advance of this essential communication technology. On March 10th 1876, the first call with an extremely short conversation: “Mr. Watson, come here! I want to see you.” which was made between the inventor Alexander Graham Bell and his assistant who sat 4.5 meters away from him, became a historical event of the first official phone. Therefore, phone invention was not only a breakthrough in communication technology but also the result of diligent research to find out a new communication type which has replaced the old telegraph before it. In fact, the idea of the phone has been debated since 1844, however, it took over 30 years after that, they could make the dream come true. The telephone switchboard was first in operation in New Haven, Connecticut, USA. And on February 21st 1878, the first telephone directory in the world was published by the New Haven telephone company with only a single page listed names of 50 people who were that company’s promoters but without any phone number. It was mainly used for recording their contribution to the company. The early telephones were only used by rich people. At that time, most phone design was very sophisticated with the specific feature: the receiver and the transmitter. When the first telephone booth was invented after that, it was considered as the future trend due to the fact that you could call anyone in anytime while on the street. Nevertheless, its rapid rise suddenly gone

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