Events
Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephoneFirst telephone Yellow Pages directoryFirst dial phone; 512,000 phones in the U.S.the first "official" coast-to-coast call is madeWorld's first radiotelephone serviceFirst public demonstration of long distance transmission of television.The Russians launched the first satellite, Sputnik.American Broadcasting Company requests
FCC to allow domestic satellites to
distribute TV programs.Voyager spacecraft is launched. Sends back signals from the solar systemFirst cellular mobile telephone service is offeredThe World Wide Web is bornInformation Appliances" make Internet mobile, wirless "Web to Go,"The year of the iPhoneThe internet of the things beginnsPeriods
TELECOMUNICATIONS TIME LINE
BY MIGUEL ANGEL MONT LUKACS
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