Comments on: Bell Telephone: Explaining mobile phone technology, c1946

By: wayne

wayne — Sat, 06 Mar 2021 12:52:34 +0000

Edward-
Excellent obscure cultural-reference!

By: Edward

Edward — Sat, 06 Mar 2021 09:00:34 +0000

A car phone was featured in the 1954 movie Sabrina.

By: Jeff Wright

Jeff Wright — Fri, 05 Mar 2021 05:54:30 +0000

I remember car-phones from the 7o’s detective show Cannon. And that Lincoln! I remember a guy talking into a Dick Tracy watch-but it required the Orbital Antenna Farm. Satellite Phones are about the size of old moble phones-one used by a dying climber atop Everest to say goodbye to his family. I think he is still up there. One chopper design did make it to the summit-lightly loaded however.

By: wayne

wayne — Fri, 05 Mar 2021 02:52:43 +0000

Shaun–
‘World’s First Mobile Phone’ (1922)
British Pathé
https://youtu.be/ILiLaRXHUr0
0:58

By: Shaun

Shaun — Fri, 05 Mar 2021 02:09:47 +0000

Typo corrections: Walkie Talkie* and radio waves*. The pitfalls of mobile technology! The irony…

By: Shaun

Shaun — Fri, 05 Mar 2021 00:19:41 +0000

I’m ashamed that, as an engineer, I wasn’t aware that mobile car phones were a thing in the late 40’s. Previously didn’t think that came until the 80’s. How wrong I was…. I’m especially impressed with how they were able to integrate raiowaves, base stations, and (at the time) cutting edge telephone trunck lines and telephone hubs. Must have been a monumental procedure, and effort, to perform a mobile call effectively in the style of a walki-talki. Makes me really appreciate the modern mobile technology we have today. I’ll probably laugh at my own comments in 10 years…

By: Ralph Kramden

Ralph Kramden — Thu, 04 Mar 2021 19:37:08 +0000

Car telephones! What hooey! What’s next pocket phones! I’ll believe it when I see it on Dumont TV news!

By: Andi

Andi — Thu, 04 Mar 2021 19:26:08 +0000

Interesting that this type of communication was half-duplex, like using a walkie-talkie. Must’ve been a bit awkward for those on the landline side of the conversation.

By: Mitch S.

Mitch S. — Thu, 04 Mar 2021 18:43:22 +0000

“unfortunately, this is silent. not sure if it was made that way or if the audio was lost)”

Considering the first “talkie” came out in the fall of 1927, I’d say this was made in the “usual” silent manner.

BTW this video can be useful for the younger generations. Some years ago I showed my 10 year old kid the dial phone at my dad’s house. She couldn’t figure out how to use it!

By: wayne

wayne — Thu, 04 Mar 2021 03:46:38 +0000

Jim-
Nice selection. (I love this type of stuff.)

To Mr. Z’s point, let’s back up 19 years….

“How to use the Dial Phone”
ATT/ PACBell
https://archive.org/details/HowtoUse1927
(unfortunately, this is silent. not sure if it was made that way or if the audio was lost)

> Fresno California market– “Dial Telephone’s will be placed in service Midnight, May 28th.”