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Vintage Telephones
October 5th 2008 00:18
The Phones of The Past
Vintage tech
Living in a digital age where even analogue mobile phones have become history. A generation grows up with touch type dialling and SMS messaging has made quaint treasures like the walky-talky absent from Christmas lists.
I don’t consider myself old but for a large portion of my childhood our phone required you to actually dial a number as a verb not an adjective. Absurd to today’s teens, the finger went in the appropriate loop and manually you cranked the round to enter the number in you were calling.
A model of the times
It wasn’t so long ago that telecommunication meant you had to go through a central switchboard where operators directed your calls. Predominantly staffed by females these hives of activity allowed for mass communication to firmly ingrain itself in the culture.
The Vintage Mobile
Back in 1844 Innocenzo Manzetti came up with idea of a speaking telegraph. Over the next 3 decades several inventors developed and worked individually on components to the make it a reality.
As with many revolutionary inventions of this age it is Alexander Graham Bell that managed to get a U.S patent despite claims that he had little to do with its actual design and development.
The voice on the wall
In 1876 the first successful phone call was made where the receiver could hear speech clearly. Shortly after that the telephones was put into commercial use without a universal mode of transmission and power.
000 Emergency
Evolving slowly over the next century to finally arrive at the birth of the mobile generation, I wonder which of the many forms phones of the future will take…maybe a chip in the brain is inevitable?
A step back in time
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