The rise of the telephone and associated industries has produced some of the most incredible

technological changes in the history of humankind, and all within little more than one hundred
twenty-five years. This timeline charts just a few of these extraordinary leaps of innovation and
invention.

To see the timeline complete and large enough to read, click on the image above. You can also
simply scroll down this page to see each piece of the timeline as it stands alone.

We have also prepared a special "Top 10" list of past telecommunications events. Please click
here to view it.

From Party line to online: The telephone had as big an impact

on the 20th century as the Industrial Revolution had on the 19th
century. It changed the way we live, work and play--and
contributed to the invention of television, computers, pagers, fax
machines, e-mail, the Internet, online stock trading and more. In
the next decade we can expect wireless Internet connections in
your car or briefcase, phone numbers you keep for life and voice
activated dialing at the touch of a button at home, work, or on the
go.

1870s-1910s
1876: Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone
1881: First telephone Yellow Pages directory
1891: First dial phone; 512,000 phones in the U.S.
1887: First coin-operated telephone installed in the Hartford Bank
by the payphone's inventor, William Gray.
1915: The first "official" coast-to-coast call is made from
Alexander Graham Bell in New York City to Thomas Watson in
San Francisco.
1920s
1929: Herbert Hoover becomes first president of the United States
with a phone on his desk. Until this time, the president talked on a
phone from outside a booth outside his executive office

1950s-1960s
1957: Field tests for the first pagers begin in Allentown and
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
1958: Princess Phone introduced. First phone with a lighted dial,
became a part of American pop culture
1960: The first Touch-Tone telephones are test-marketed in
Findlay, Ohio. These telephones had 10 buttons, rather than the 12
buttons of today
1963: Hotline established between White House and Kremlin
following the Cuban missile crisis
1968: 911 chosen as the nationwide emergency number. The
nation's telephone companies agree to make this three-digit
sequence unavailable as an exchange number

1970s-1980s
1972: First e-mail message. The term "Internet" is used for the
first time two years later, but the concept of the Internet as we
know it today didn't evolve until later
1984: First cellular phones

1990s
1991: Caller ID introduced. Controversial at the time, Caller ID
has become America's most popular add-on feature
1998: The World Wide Web is born, marking the beginning of the
Internet as we know it today. Most Americans get Internet
connections through their phone lines
2000 and beyond
2000: The "Web Phone" combines a traditional telephone with an
LCD touch-screen and a retractable keyboard to let customers surf
the Internet, check e-mail, make phone calls and check voice mail
from a single device
2000: The "Thin Phone" integrates wireless Internet access with
local wireless phone service, allowing Internat customers to stay
connected with everything from Web pages to voice and e-mail,
all while on the move
2000 and beyond: "Information Appliances" make Internet
mobile, wirless "Web to Go," voice-activated dialing, phone
numbers for life, phone calls and Internet on your TV, TV via
wireless phones, and much more. If you wish to see our "Top 10"
list of events that may shape the future of telecommunications,
please click here.
 MINISTERUL EDUCAȚIEI ,CULTURIII ȘI CERCETĂRII
AL REPUBLICII MOLDOVA

CENTRUL DE EXCELENȚĂ ÎN ENERGETICĂ ȘI ELECTRONICĂ

Catedra COMUNICAȚII
2101 Specialitatea TELECOMUNICAŢII

Lucrare de practică
nr.2
La disciplina:Engleza aplicată
Tema:History of telecomunication

A efectuat elevulGr-TC-0315: Negruță Mariana

A verificat profesorul: Onofrei Olga

Chişinău 2017