Today, nearly everyone owns a mobile phone. Remembering a time where phone calls were a rare, novel idea. After Alexander Graham Bell filed 1st official telephone patent, he set up Bell Telephone Company, eventually Bell System (AT&T long lines, western electric, bell labs). Bell’s phone was 1st to transmit clear speech. On March 10, 1876 Bell spoke into his device, “Mr. Watson come here, I want to see you.”
Bell Telephone (Wooden Hand Crank Phone)
Year Invented: 1876
Inventor: Alexander Graham Bell
Country of Origin: United States
Years Manufactured: 1876 – 1910
Candlestick Telephone
Year Invented:1890s
Inventor:Either Stromberg Carlson or Almon Stowger
Country of Origin: United States
Years Manufactured: 1890s – 1920s
Rotary Dial Candlestick
Year Invented: 1905
Inventor: Automatic Electric Company founded by Almon Strowger
Country of Origin: United States
Years Manufactured: 1905 – 1930
Desk Top Cradle Telephone (Model 102/202)
Year Invented: 1927
Inventor: Bell System
Country of Origin: United States
Years Manufactured: 1927 – 1937
The Bakelite Phone (Ericsson DBH 1001)
Year Invented: 1931
Inventor: Collaboration between Elektrisk Bureau, LM Ericcson and Televerket
Country of Origin: Sweden/Norway
Years Manufactured: 1931 – 1962
Western Electric Model 302
Year Invented: 1937
Inventor: Bell System; designed by firm of Henry Dreyfuss
Country of Origin: United States
Years Manufactured: 1937 – 1955
Western Electric Model 500
Year Invented: 1950
Inventor: Bell System
Country of Origin: United States
Years Manufactured: 1950 – 1980s
The Princess Telephone
Year Invented: 1959
Inventor: Bell System
Country of Origin: United States
Years Manufactured: 1959 – 1994
Trimline Telephone
Year Invented: 1965
Inventor: Bell System
Country of Origin: United States
Years Manufactured: 1965 – 1990s
Love these clunky old phones!
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