Although mobile phones may seem like a distinctly twenty-first century innovation, the history of mobile technology spans much further back than you might think. At the dawn of the twentieth century, a farmer in Kentucky was tinkering with the wireless phone that he had invented. By the 1920s, radiophones let passengers on ships contact people on land. Our desire to have mobile conversations, it turns out, has been with us for over a hundred years. Here’s how mobile technology has shaped the world we live in during that time and how mobile solutions are poised to influence our future in the coming years.
The history of mobile technology: Early beginnings
Right after Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone in 1876, inventors began working on a mobile version. As Motherboard notes, Bell himself tried his hand at it in 1880 with the photophone, a telephone that could transmit speech using light. A short while later, in 1908, a Kentucky-based farmer and self-taught electrician named Nathan Stubblefield patented the design of a mobile phone that was intended to facilitate communications among boats, trains and way stations. Although it didn’t catch on at the time, people never gave up their fascination with the idea of communicating while in transit.
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