1. 1667: Robert Hooke invented a string telephone

2. 1844: Innocenzo Manzetti The first mooted the idea of a “speaking telegraph”

3. 1867 Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone

4. April 1, 1976 Apple INCwith the release of the Apple 1

5. 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.

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

7. 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.

8. 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.

9. 1981: The world's first fully automatic mobile phone system NMT is started in Sweden and Norway.

10. http://en. wikipedia. org/wiki/File:Original_iPhone_docked
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