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![]() As far as I know, this is the first clear reference to a pocket phone.
As far as I know, this is an ordinary telephone conversation as it would have happened in 1915. The earliest telephones had no dials; it required that you speak to an operator. Once you picked up the instrument, you would tell the operator who you wanted to speak to, and she would connect your call.
As far as I know, the earliest efforts by engineers along this line occurred in 1917, when Finnish inventor Eric Tigerstedt filed a patent for a "pocket-size folding telephone with a very thin carbon microphone".
The British cartoonist W. K. Haselden described a "Pocket Telephone" and the cartoon was first published in The Mirror on March 5, 1919:
![]() (The Pocket Telephone - When Will It Ring?)
Compare to the telephonoscope from The Coming Race (1929) by JD Bernal, the pocketphone from Heinlein's 1953 novel Assignment in Eternity and also this reference in Heinlein's 1948 novel Space Cadet - the portable telephone. Also the pocket receiver from The Magellanic Cloud (1955) by Stanislaw Lem. Comment/Join this discussion ( 0 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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