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This 1963 newspaper article has a photo of a mobile phone prototype
2022-06-06 00:00:00
An article from the April 18, 1963 edition of the Massfield News-Journal promised "You'll be able to carry a phone in pocket in future."
Right now, it's a laboratory development and it's workable, allowing the carrier to make and answer calls wherever he may be. Other telephones of the future includes a kitchen loud speaking telephone, and a visual image telephone.
The kitchen instrument can be used as regular telephone, a loudspeaking phone if the housewife happens to be busy preparing a meal, or as an intercom station for the home. The visual image telephone allows the parties to converse by way of a microphone and loud speaker while a miniature television camera transmits the image. The "TV phone" also will have a writer signature transmission system and a conversation tape recorder.
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Related, a cartoon from the March 5th, 1919 edition of The Daily Mirror about the inconveniences of having a mobile phone:
W.K. Haselden predicted the mobile 'pocket' telephone on 5th March 1919 in the Daily Mirror. pic.twitter.com/oJKMDSHbMm — Mel Haselden (@MelHaselden) February 5, 2015
And, going back even further, this excerpt from Ella Cheever Thayer's delightful 1979 melodrama novel, Wired Love: A Romance of Dots and Dashes:
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