100 YEARS AGO: First Telephone Call

[PawneeSports]

Alexander Graham Bell makes first telephone call, one hundred years ago, TODAY.

Who woulda thought that one day, they would be saying, "CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW".

[OKLAHOMAMOSES]

WHAT?:rambo: :headbanger:

[DusterDad]

I heard this tidbit of history earlier today on the radio. Actually quite fascinating considering how far its come in just the last 30 years. Heck, I can remember people having a "party line". :spin:

[Cougz]

I heard this tidbit of history earlier today on the radio. Actually quite fascinating considering how far its come in just the last 30 years. Heck, I can remember people having a "party line". :spin:
lol,....I remember my cousin and I when we were kids listening to the old ladies down the road on the party line and trying to keep from snickering and blowing our cover.:cool:

[PawneeSports]

Wooden phone:
http://www.telephoneart.com/antique/wepff.gif

http://www.wilsonbluegrass.com/media/images/telephone.jpg

Rotary phone:
http://www.sparkfun.com/shop/images/416.jpg

Click here to listen to an old rotary phone (http://www.sparkfun.com/tutorial/high_voltage_ringer/ringer.mp3)

First cell phone:

http://www.3g.co.uk/PR/April2003/Brick.jpg
Today marks the 30th anniversary of the first public telephone call placed on a portable cellular phone. Martin Cooper, ArrayComm Inc.'s chairman, CEO and co-founder, placed that call on April 3, 1973, while general manager of Motorola's Communications Systems Division. It was the incarnation of his vision for personal wireless communications, distinct from cellular car phones. Inset is Martin Cooper, inventor of the handheld cellular phone and now chairman and CEO of ArrayComm, demonstrates the first portable cellular telephone which debuted on April 3, 1973.That first call, placed to Cooper's rival at AT&T's Bell Labs from the streets of New York City, caused a fundamental technology and communications market shift toward the person and away from the place.

The most famous operator:
http://lancemannion.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/lily_tomlin_01.jpg