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The phone was invented in 1876, but before the phone came the telegraph in 1837. The first phones did not dials on them for calls, but you had to connect to an operator that would connect you to the call. Finally, came dial up phones.The idea of a cell phone was as early as the 1930's when police radios were used, but it wasn't until 1946 that the first prototype of a cell was made. In 1973 Dr. Martin Cooper working for Motorola made the first cell phone. This phone was only used by the government until 1984 when it was offered for public use. The first cell phones were large, in a bag, looked like a dial phone, and had a battery that took up the entire bottom of the bag with the phone on top. It was very heavy and hard to carry. Calls were expensive to make and it didn't work in many places. It took several years before there were enough cell towers to prevent dropped calls.

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