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Alexander Graham Bell (/ ˈ ɡ r eɪ. ə m /; born Alexander Bell; March 3, 1847 – August 2, 1922) [4] was a Scottish-born [N 1] Canadian-American inventor, scientist, and engineer who is credited with patenting the first practical telephone.
By 1960 the number of African Americans in Florida had increased to 880,186, but declined proportionally to 18% of the state's population. [citation needed] This was a much smaller proportion than in 1900, when the census showed they comprised 44% of the state's population, while numbering 230,730 persons. [111]
1971: AT&T submitted a proposal for cellular phone service to the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC). 3 April 1973: Motorola employee Martin Cooper placed the first hand-held cell phone call to Joel Engel, head of research at AT&T's Bell Labs, while talking on the first Motorola DynaTAC prototype.
The acoustic tin can telephone, or "lovers' phone", has been known for centuries. [1] It connects two diaphragms with a taut string or wire, which transmits sound by mechanical vibrations from one to the other along the wire (and not by a modulated electric current). The classic example is the children's toy made by connecting the bottoms of ...
Original NANP area codes of Florida and surrounding states. In 1947, the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) announced the first nationwide telephone numbering plan and divided the United States and Canada into 86 numbering plan areas and assigned the original North American area codes, a unique code for each area, to speed the connection times for operator toll dialing.
Shipwreck discovered at bottom of Florida Keys is revealed to be long-lost British warship. Amelia Neath. March 20, 2024 at 3:10 PM. The vessel’s remains was first discovered in the 90s, but it ...
According to statistics from the US Department of Veteran Affairs (VA), 2021 saw almost 6,400 veterans commit suicide, a number that increased by 11.5% from 2020 to 2021, the most recent years of ...
It's a Christmas miracle! A 75-year-old man who was adopted as an infant in Buffalo, N.Y., recently discovered that he has one half-sister and four half-brothers.