Timeline

1849: The first basic phone

1854: Devised a phone

1874: Bell started his revlutionary  research and started business plans

1876: U.S. reaction to Alexander Graham Bell was giving him the first patent

1877-78: the first telephone line was construsted which is an impact of the invention

1880: Bell reform his company by other telephone Companies 

1900: Bell started selling telephones

1905:Bell had a influence by selling  2.2 million telephones

1910: selled 5.8 million telephones 

1918-19: WW1 started, the governement nationalized the telephone and telegraph lines in the U.S.

1934: the telephone had private ownership

1948: 30millionth phone was connected in the US

1960s: there were 80 million phones hooked-up in the US and 160 million in the world

1980: 175 million telephone subscriber lines in the US  

1974: the US did the Department of justice 

1984: AT&T's force the telephone to divestiture 

1993: The first digital cellular network started in orlando, FL

1995: Their were 25 million cellular phones subscribers and that number was a huge turn of the century 

2010: Digital cellular phone service to be replaced land-lines phones for most people in the US
                           

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