1. By Jeremy Swann Mrs. Helen Bond 12:40-2:00

4.  Thomas Edison invented the carbon microphone which produced a strong telephone signal.

5.  1915: First U.S. coast-to-coast long-distance telephone call, ceremoniously inaugurated by A.G. Bell in New York City and his former assistant Thomas Augustus Watson in San Francisco, California.Thomas Augustus Watson

6.  In December 1947, Bell Labs engineers Douglas H. Ring and W. Rae Young proposed hexagonal cell transmissions for mobile phones. [Bell LabsDouglas H. RingW. Rae Young [

7.  On April 3, 1973 Motorola manager Martin Cooper placed a cellular phone call (in front of reporters) to Dr. Joel S. Engel, head of research at AT&T's Bell Labs. This began the era of the handheld cellular mobile phone.Martin CooperBell Labs

8.  The first commercially automated cellular network (the 1G generation) was launched in Japan by NTT in 1979.1GNTT

9.  In the 1990s, the 'second generation' (2G) mobile phone systems emerged, primarily using the GSM standard. These differed from the previous generation by using digital instead of analog transmission, and also fast out-of-band phone-to-network signaling. The rise in mobile phone usage as a result of 2G was explosive and this era also saw the advent of prepaid mobile phones.1990s2GGSM out-of-bandadventprepaid mobile phones

10.  the introduction of several new forward link data rates that increase the maximum burst rate from 2.45 Mbit/s to 3.1 Mbit/s.  protocols that would decrease connection establishment time.  the ability for more than one mobile to share the same time slot.  the introduction of QoS flags.QoS

11.  Today most people own a cellular phone that performs many functions such as web surfing, picture taking, text and sms messaging, GPS system and many other functions can be found within todays top cellular phones.