Evolution of the Telephone 1856 - 2020 (Landline)

Evolution of the Landline Telephone 1856 - 2020 #telephone #history #tech

This is a quick look at the evolution of the telephone. The history will be provided in a separate video.

1856 Telettrofono
30 prototypes created between 1856 and 1871. Never Patented the invention because lack of funds. Used Make and Break Circuit

1863 Reis Telephone

1876 Liquid Phone By Graham Bell
First person to get a patent for the telephone as Meucci did not have the funds to patent. Before the telephone exchange they practically functioned as a primitive intercom.

1877 Bells First Commercial Phone

1878 Acoustic Telephone
Used in the USA to connect any sites not exceeding a distance of 1.6 km between them.

1880 Gower Bell First European Telephone
1878 Bell Coffin Phone
1880 Bell Blake
1882 Western Electric Three Box Phone
1884 Western Electric Long Distance Phone
1888 Ericsson AC
1890 Ericsson Skeletal Phone
1892 Eiffel Tower 1st Australian Phone
1892 Candlestick Phone and Ringer
1900 First Payphone
1905 Strowger Telephone 1st Dialer
1911 First Standard Payphone 50A
1919 Candlestick With Dial
1926 Western Electric A
1937 Western Electric 302 + Ringer
1938 Western Electric Business Phone
1945 First Commercial Answering Machine
1949 Western Electric
1949 WE 554 Most Popular Rotary Wall Phone
1957 880 Speaker Phone Automatic Electric
1958 Western Electric Call Director
1959 Princess Phone with Night Light
1964 Western Electric 2500 Most Popular Desk Phone
1964 WE 2554 Most Popular Wall Touch Tone
1965 El Grillo 1st Flip Phone
1966 Tele 724 1st Touch Tone in UK
1967 Batphone
1968 Trimline Phone Dial in Handset
1969 First Videophone
1971 First Caller ID device
1974 Rovafone Semi-Cordless Phone
1973 WE Touch A Matic 1st Solid State Memory
1980 First Commercial Cordless Phone
1981 Garfield Phone
1983 Cabbage Patch Phone
1984 Mac-Phone Prototype
1985 Gumby Phone
1986 B&O Beacom
1988 First Commercial Caller ID by BellSouth
1991 Vtech 900 NDX 1st digital 900MHz Cordless
1991 AT&T 1337 1st Digital Answering Machine
1992 Clear Trimline Re-release
1993 Star Trek Phone
1994 Princess Re-release
1995 VocalTec Internet Phone First VoIP
2002 Vtech 5831 1st 5.8 Ghz
2005 First Skype WiFI VoIP Phone
2006 Vonage VoIP Service
2008 Ooma Core Free VoIP Service
2009 B&O BeoCom
2012 iDect Eclipse
2014 iDect Boomerang
2016 Philips Faro
2017 NVX 200 - Bluetooth Speaker Answering Machine
2018 V-Tech LS
2020 Nucleus Ily Video/VoIP Phone

[luxxeond]

From 1930s to around 1970s, the regular black home dial phone did not change much. Incredible how long that design lasted. Imagine a design lasting 40 years today.

[Drobium]

I'm only 41, but we were using 1940's phones right up until the early 90s in our house. Endless hours trying to phone the doctor on a rotary phone...wow!, it really was old fashioned looking back now

[ethansf]

6:31 oh no someone stepped on Garfield

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0:11 Telettorfona 1856 0:22 Reis Telephone 1863 0:32 Liquid Phone 1876 0:42 Bell's First Commercial Phone 1877 (More Like 1977 But Its In The 1800's!) 0:52 Acoustic Telephone 1878 1:02 Gover-Bell Telephone 1880 1:12 Bell Coffin Phone 1878 (2) 1:22 Bell Blake 1880 (2) 1:32 Western Electric Three Box Phone 1882 1:42 Western Electric Long Distance Phone 1884 1:52 Ericsson AC100 1888 2:02 Ericsson Skeletal Phone 1890 2:02 Effiel Tower Phone 1892 2:22 CandleStick Phone And Ringer 1892 (2) 2:32 First PayPhone 1900 2:42 Strowger Phone 1905 2:52 First Stranderd Pay WE 5DA 1911 3:02 CandleStick With Dial 1919 3:12 Western Electric A1 1926 3:22 Western Electric 1937 3:32 Western Electric Business Phone
1938 3:42 Ipsophone 1st Commercial Answering Machine 1945 (My 2nd Favorite Year) 3:52 Most Popular Rotary Phone WE 500 1949 4:02 Most Popular Rotary Wall Phone Western Electric 554 1949 (2) 4:12 Automatic Electric 800 SpeakerPhone 1957 4:22 We Cell Director 1958 4:32 Night Light Phone We Princess 1959 4:42 Most Popular Touch Tone Desk Phone WE 2500 1964 4:52 Most Popylar Touch Tone Wall Phone WE 2554 1964 (2) 5:04 First Flip Phone El Grillio 1965 5:12 1st Touch Tone In The UK Tele 724 1966 5:22 Emergancy Phone BatPhone 1967 5:32 1st In The Handest Trimline 1968 5:42 First VideoPhone 1969 5:52 First Caller ID 1971 6:02 Semi-Cordless Rovafone 1974 6:12 First Solid State Memory WE Touch A Matic 1973 (It Did Get 1 Year Back!) 6:22 First Commercial Cordless Phone Freedom Phone 1980 6:32 Tyco Garfield Phone 1981 6:42 Cabbage Patch Phone 1983 6:52 6:52 Mac Phone Prototype 1984 7:02 Gumpy Phone 1985 7:12 B&O Beacon 1986 7:22 First Commercial Caller ID BellSouth 1988 7:32 First 900 MHz Digital Cordless Vtech 900 NDX 1991 7:42 First Digital Answering Machine AT&T 1337 1991 (2) 7:52 Clear Trimline Re-realease 1992 8:02 Star Trek Phone 1993 8:12 Princess Re-realease 1994 8:22 Vocal Tec Internet Phone First VolP 1995 8:32 First 5.8 GHz Cordless Vtech 5831 2002 8:42 First Skype Wifi VolP Phone 2005 8:52 Vonage VolP Phone Service 2006 9:02 First Free VolP Service Ooma Core 2008 9:12 B&O BeoCam 5 2009 9:22 iDect Eclipse 2012 9:32 iDect Boomerang (More Like Boomerang From Cartoon Network) 2014 9:42 Phillips Faro 2016 9:52 Invoxia NXA 200 2017 10:02 VTech LS6181 2018 And 10:12 Video & VolP Phone Nucleus lly 2020

[Peterkragger]

Me: Can I have iPhone?
Mom: We have iPhone at home
iPhone at home: 6:51

[ArachmadiPutra]

5:24 Bubbles, Buttercup and Blossom still using this.... trust me, at least until 2002

[chevyguy]

Despite the fact that I have a Smartphone, I will NEVER give up my landline!

[abacab]

My grandparents still had the 1884 phone in their house. I remember it in the 1970's, but I think it had been turned into some sort of intercom to call people upstairs. I remember playing around with it when I was a kid.

[jaysilva]

I remember my grandparents had the old wind up telephone from early 1900s it was so cool.

[korosenseisimpdemirabelmad]

I REALLY love old phones! I have 2 Ericssons, one from the 70s and one from the 80s and they are discs

[pattibrooks]

Loved the old phones better than even the brand newer versions !!!!

[donuthole]

As a design engineer I've worked in the telco industry designing NEBS compliant Central Office (CO) equipment. In 2020 I was at my parent house and was sleeping in a spare room where they had an old rotary phone from the 60's on a table. Out of curiosity I plugged the RJ45 jack into the wall and dialed (literally LOL) and called my cellphone. To my amazement IT WORKED! That is an old analog dialing system which sends off a set number of clicks with each turn of the dial which gets decoded at the CO and routed to the proper destination. Everything now is digital, but the phone companies are very big on compatibility and reliability and are loath to make drastic changes in the system. The old clicking analog router equipment would have been replaced decades ago but it appears someone decided to design the system to recognize the old routing signal from a rotary phone. I thought that was so cool using that to call a cellphone. I don't know how much longer that will work, perhaps it was limited to the carrier they were using. It brought back a lot of memories and its lot likely I will ever have that opportunity again.

[Vss]

Our church had that spin dial phone in the 1990's and my sister had this super cool clear cord phone. It's amazing how slow the change in technology was, way more comfortable

[AnthonyLeeBand]

3:51 now that is what you call a telephone, the 1949 black rotary phone. It had the best feel to it, the coolest sounds and with a long black chord it was perfect. They seem to also be popular in the late 80’s early 90’s.

[krutika]

2000s: We made the best smartphone!

1800s : If we didn't invented that! You won't able to evolve that!!!!

[sarpsarp]

In 1880, About 49 thousands phones were in use in USA. That number is fucking amazing for the year 1880.

[shiny_glitter_you]

The music goes pretty well with the subject shown here.

[jps]

The last phone looks like kitchen scales

[Wetbboi]

3:08 my grandparents have one of these chilling in their house

[nightmaremoon]

Actually the first telephone invented was a tin can with a string connected each other on both ends.