Telephone

=Who=

Alexander Graham Bell was born on March 3, 1847 in Edinburgh, Scotland, the son of Alexander Melville Bell and Eliza Grace Symonds, daughter of a surgeon in the Royal Navy. His mother, who was a portrait painter and accomplished musician, began to lose her hearing when Graham (a name that was used by his family and close friends) was twelve. His father had a world wide reputation as a teacher and author of textbooks on correct speech, and as the inventor of "visible speech," a code of symbols which indicated the position and action of the throat, tongue and lips in uttering various sounds. Melvilles Visible Speech helped to guide the deaf in learning to speak and Graham became an expert in its use for that purpose. Graham and his two brothers assisted Melville in public demonstrations in Visible Speech, beginning in 1862.- http://seor.gmu.edu/student_project/syst101_00b/team18/whoinv.htm

=What=

Alexander Graham Bell conceived of the telephone at his summer home in Brantford, Ontario and physically created his first phone in Boston, Massachusetts (where, he said, it was 'born'). This was a result of his research into improving the telegraph system. Bell was experimenting into improving the telegraph system so that multiple messages could be sent at the same time (his theory of the 'harmonic telegraph' was based on the principle that several messages could be sent simultaneously along the same wire if the different telegraph signals each had a different pitch). However at the same time he began working on the novel idea that speech could be transmitted.electronically, as he accidentally discovered that the sound of a spring being twanged could be heard over his harmonic telegraph system. Almost a year later in March 1876 Bell uttered the first famous words into the device to his assistant in the next room: "Mr. Watson, come here -I want to see you".- Wiki Answer's

=When=

1875, Bell began to write the specifications for his first telephone patent. The patent was issued on March 7, 1876. The telephone carried its first intelligible sentence three days later in the rented top floor of a Boston boarding house at 109 Court Street, Boston.

Cellphone

Mobile phones have brought about a dramatic change to the communication industry. The development of mobile phones has made long-distance communication a matter of seconds. Who was the genius to invent the first mobile phone and when was it invented? The mobile phone was invented in 1973 by Dr. Martin Cooper, a Motorola employee. On April 3, 1973, the first cell phone call was made. The caller was naturally, Dr. Cooper himself. The receiver of the first mobile phone call was Joel Angel, the research head at AT&T’s Bell Labs and rival of Dr. Cooper.-http://www.buzzle.com/articles/when-was-the-first-mobile-phone-invented.html

Dr **Martin Cooper**, a former general manager for the systems division at Motorola, is considered the inventor of the first portable handset and the first person to make a call on a portable cell phone in April 1973. The first call he made was **to his rival**, Joel Engel, Bell Labs head of research. -http://www.cellular.co.za/cellphone_inventor.htm

The first smartphone was called [|Simon]; it was designed by [|IBM] in 1992 and shown as a concept product[|[][|7][|]] that year at [|COMDEX], the computer industry trade show held in [|Las Vegas, Nevada]. It was released to the public in 1993 and sold by [|BellSouth]. Besides being a mobile phone, it also contained a calendar, [|address book], world clock, [|calculator], note pad, e-mail, send and receive [|fax], and games. It had no physical buttons to dial with. Instead customers used a [|touchscreen] to select [|telephone numbers] with a finger or create [|facsimiles] and memos with an optional stylus. Text was entered with a unique on-screen "predictive" keyboard. By today's standards, the Simon would be a fairly low-end product; however, its feature set at the time was highly advanced.-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smartphone

 The satellite phone was invented in 1947, by Bell Labs engineers at AT&T-http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Company_who_invented_Satellite_phone_pager_and_radio

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While many events led up to the invention of the iPhone, the date that the original iPhone was released was June 29, 2007. That's when the iPhone made its debut to the public and became available for consumer purchase. However, the iPhone was the latest step in a long series of research projects begun by Steve Jobs and Apple long before this date.-http://www.life123.com/technology/home-electronics/iphone/when-was-the-iphone-invented.shtml
 * The original iPhone was released in June 2007.**

The first BlackBerry was launched in 1999. Since its initial production, it has come to feature a QWERTY keypad, instant email access and updated BlackBerry technologies such as BlackBerry Messenger and [|Internet] applications. By December 2008, BlackBerry had acquired more than 21 million subscribers.  Read more: [|What Year was the Blackberry Cell Phone Invented? | eHow.com] []

Home Phones

The home phone was invented, by Alexander Graham Bell in 1861. Read more: []