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  2. Invention of the telephone - Wikipedia

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    A retired director general of the Telecom Italia central telecommunications research institute , Basilio Catania, [12] and the Italian Society of Electrotechnics, "Federazione Italiana di Elettrotecnica", have devoted a Museum to Antonio Meucci, constructing a chronology of his invention of the telephone and tracing the history of the two legal ...

  3. Telephone - Wikipedia

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    An old rotary dial telephone AT&T push button telephone made by Western Electric, model 2500 DMG black, 1980. A telephone, colloquially referred to as a phone, is a telecommunications device that enables two or more users to conduct a conversation when they are too far apart to be easily heard directly.

  4. Telephony - Wikipedia

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    Telephony (/ t ə ˈ l ɛ f ə n i / tə-LEF-ə-nee) is the field of technology involving the development, application, and deployment of telecommunications services for the purpose of electronic transmission of voice, fax, or data, between distant parties.

  5. History of mobile phones - Wikipedia

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    A man talks on his mobile phone while standing near a conventional telephone box, which stands empty. Enabling technology for mobile phones was first developed in the 1940s but it was not until the mid-1980s that they became widely available.

  6. Satellite phone - Wikipedia

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    The first satellite relayed phone calls were achieved early on in the space age, after the first relay test was conducted by Pioneer 1 and the first broadcast by SCORE in 1958 at the end of the year, after Sputnik I became at the beginning of the year the first satellite in history.

  7. Rotary dial - Wikipedia

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    A traditional North American rotary telephone dial on the Western Electric 500. The associative lettering was originally used for dialing named exchanges but was kept because it facilitated memorization of telephone numbers.

  8. Push-button telephone - Wikipedia

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    A push-button telephone is a telephone that has buttons or keys for dialing a telephone number, in contrast to a rotary dial used in earlier telephones.. Western Electric experimented as early as 1941 with methods of using mechanically activated reeds to produce two tones for each of the ten digits and by the late 1940s such technology was field-tested in a No. 5 Crossbar switching system in ...

  9. Pada Zaman Dahulu - Wikipedia

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    Pada Zaman Dahulu (Malay for "Once Upon a Time"), is a Malaysian animated series first broadcast in 2011 on TV Alhijrah and later on Astro Ceria.The series tells a story of the adventures of two young city kids, Ara and Aris and their grandfather Aki, who told his grandchildren tales that featured kancil, a mouse-deer popular in Malaysian folklore, and various other animal characters such as ...