1667: Robert Hooke invented a string telephone http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tin_can_telephone

1844: Innocenzo Manzetti The first mooted the idea of a “speaking telegraph”

1867 Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone http://comminfo.rutgers.edu/~dalbello/FLVA/infrastructure/infoinfra/telephone/index.html

April 1, 1976 Apple INCwith the release of the Apple 1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Apple_Inc.

1877 The first telephone appeared in Wisconsin 1877 The first telephone appeared in Wisconsin. Appleton banker Alfred Galpin ran a line from his residence to the bank.

March 1926: First transatlantic telephone call, from London to New York

April 1970: world's first videophone call via an electro-mechanical AT&T unit, from Washington, D.C. to New York City, by then-Commerce Secretary Hebert Hoover.

April 1973:Motorola employee Martin Cooper placed the first hand-held cell phone call to Joel Engel, head of research at AT&T’S Bell Labs while talking on the first Motorola DynaTAC prototype.

1981: The world's first fully automatic mobile phone system NMT is started in Sweden and Norway.

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