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Cell Phones And The Cell Phone

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In today’s day and age, one of the most widely used forms of communication is the cell phone. The cell phone is a device that allows you to interact with anyone else, whether they’re sitting next to you, or across the country. Created to “eliminate down time” (Bittman, Brown, Wajcman, 2009) it’s arguable that our society tends to use their cell phone more than they talk face to face to other people anymore. While we’re used to smartphones and waiting to get the newest iPhone, the first form of cell phone was much different than what we see today. The first form of the cell phone was created in the 1940’s. Thanks to inventors like Reginald A. Fessenden who in 1907 sent the first piece of audio (wireless telephony) through electromagnetic waves, and Alexander Graham, Bell who in 1876 created the telephone (Ager, 2004) the mobile phone was then thought as an idea. For a while the “radio telephone” was used for military purposes only. Every “radio telephone” worked off of its “own separate frequency”, because if it didn’t calls could easily be obstructed, mixed up, or people could possibly listen in on private conversations. (Ager, 2004) This left the invention available to only a few. In the 1940’s things started to change. Beginning in 1947 a company named AT&T began offering a “radio-telephone service between New York and Boston” (Lacohée, Pearson, and Wakeford, 2003). This was revolutionary because based off that piece of technology they ended up creating the first

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