'Mobile' phone enjoys centenery

One hundred years later, Nathan Stubblefield is finally being recognised as the inventor of the mobile phone.

Photographs of the world's first "wireless telephone" have revealed that it was not quite as mobile as its modern counterparts.

According to The Telegraph, the telephone was made up of a system of wire suspended between metal rods with the transmitter placed on a train carriage or boat.

When the vehicle neared, a signal was sent through the air to the telephone using magnetic fields. It could be heard near the other end of the wire through another phone.

[via CrunchGear]

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