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  2. Invention of the telephone - Wikipedia

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    Alexander Graham Bell. Bell's March 10, 1876, laboratory notebook entry describing his first successful experiment with the telephone. Alexander Graham Bell had pioneered a system called visible speech, developed by his father, to teach deaf children. In 1872 Bell founded a school in Boston, Massachusetts, to train teachers of the deaf.

  3. iPhone (1st generation) - Wikipedia

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    The iPhone [10] (retroactively referred to as the iPhone 2G, [11] iPhone 1, [12] or original iPhone [11]) is the first iPhone model and the first smartphone designed, developed, and marketed by Apple Inc. After years of rumors and speculation, it was officially announced on January 9, 2007, [13] and was released in the United States on June 29 ...

  4. BlackBerry - Wikipedia

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    After the success of the 900, the Inter@ctive Pager 800 was created for IBM, which bought US$10 million worth of them on February 4, 1998. The next device to be released was the Inter@ctive Pager 950, on August 26, 1998. The first device to carry the BlackBerry name was the BlackBerry 850, an email pager, released January 19, 1999.

  5. First transcontinental telephone call - Wikipedia

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    A telephone call, which for marketing purposes is claimed to be the first transcontinental telephone call, occurred on January 25, 1915, a day timed to coincide with the Panama–Pacific International Exposition celebrations. However, the transcontinental telephone line was first completed on June 17, 1914, and successfully first voice tested ...

  6. Telephone - Wikipedia

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    An old rotary dial telephone. AT&T push button telephone made by Western Electric, model 2500 DMG black, 1980. A telephone is a telecommunications device that permits two or more users to conduct a conversation when they are too far apart to be easily heard directly. A telephone converts sound, typically and most efficiently the human voice ...

  7. Telephone directory - Wikipedia

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    The combination of phone number lookups, along with Internet access, was offered by some service providers; VoIP (Voice over IP) was an additional feature. History The first telephone directory, printed in New Haven, Connecticut, United States, in November 1878. Telephone directories are a type of city directory. Books listing the inhabitants ...

  8. Mobile phone - Wikipedia

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    The first handheld mobile phone was demonstrated by Martin Cooper of Motorola in New York City on 3 April 1973, using a handset weighing c. 2 kilograms (4.4 lbs). In 1979, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT) launched the world's first cellular network in Japan. In 1983, the DynaTAC 8000x was the first commercially available handheld mobile phone.

  9. IBM Simon - Wikipedia

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    IBM / Bell South Simon Smartphone: First shown in 1993, this was the world's first so-called 'smart phone'. The $899 Prehistoric Predecessor to the iPhone (Web video). Bloomberg. June 28, 2012. Archived from the original (FLV) on July 7, 2012