Communications

This is the last part in our series. We've guided you trough almost 200 years of telecommunications, from the invention of Morse code to digital telephony and smartphones. Now it's time to take a look at what the future has in store for us,

In this series we explore the history of telecommunications in all its facets. We already told you about the rise and evolution of toll-free servive numbers and the first mobile phone. In this article you'll learn more about the further…

In this series we explore the history of telecommunications in all its facets. Our previous two articles in the series discussed innovations in hardware, such as the 'mobile'car phone and the first actual mobile phone. Parallel to these inventions ran…

In this series we explore the history of telecommunications in all its facets. In the previous installment of this series we discussed the first 'mobile' phones: huge machines that could only be used from the trunk of a car. Now…

In this series we explore the history of telecommunications in all its facets. After World War 2 the development of telecommunications took a flight, and just like with earlier innovations AT&T and Bell Laboratories were leading the movement. Already in…

In this series we explore the history of telecommunications in all its facets. In 1915, almost 40 years after Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Watson had their first historic telephone conversation, they would have another. This time it concerned the…

In this series we explore the history of telecommunications in all its facets. Mobile phones and wireless technology are all around us nowadays, and it's hard to imagine a life without it. Still, the mobile phone is a relatively new invention,…