The Telecommunications Timeline

take command COMMANDER www.COMMANDER.COM PRES ENT S The HISTORY of TELECOMMUNICATION (o) 1876 MARCH 10 Alexander Graham Bell's first words over the telephone: "Mr Watson, come here. I want to see you!" "MR. WATSON, The origin of the phrase 'to put someone on hold' was Alexander Graham Bell handing over his telephone instrument to his partner Mr Watson and saying, 'here, hold this'. COME HERE. I WANT "HERE, HOLD THIS" TO SEE YOU!" earlieet telephone shetch 433 PARTS The earliest telephones were analogue-based. The average analogue telephone had 433 parts. (*) (() 1935 Theory of cOMmunication 1943 FIRST AUTOMATIC THEORY OF ANSWERING MACHINE COMMUNICATION Dr Shannan's diagmof Genel Cemmnkatiana Syaten Dr. Claude Shannon first theorised his Willy Müller invented the first automatic answering machine. Mathematical Theory of Communication, which introduced the concept using binary code (0 and 1). The modern age of digital communication - including the Internet - has all been based on binary code. (•) 1968 THE INTERNET Initially developed by the US Defence Department in 1968 for military reasons, the Internet is basically a global network of computers. (•) (O) 1973 1984 FIRST FIRST MOBILE PHONE CALL MOBILE PHONE SOLD Martin Cooper made the first mobile phone call. The Motorola DynaTAC 8000X is the first mobile phone that was available commercially. cost $3,995.00 weighed 1.75Ibs (800 grams) 1995 30 minutes of talk time FIRST INTERNET PHONE SMS (SHORT MESSAGE SERVICE SERVICE) The first Internet Phone The 'Special' Nokia tone for Service was created by the receiving SMS text messages is Israeli company VocalTec. Morse code for 'SMS'