Walkie Talkie Research Paper

Throughout time, the human race has used its intellect and creativity to produce astounding advancements in technology that have bettered the lives of generations to come. Beginning with the simple tools hunters and gatherers created in order to make their tasks more doable, to the mind-boggling technology of today, technology is forever shaping the world we live in. The twentieth century especially, was a time of achievement in which an abundance of advances were made. A truly great technological advancement is one that is able to stand the test of time. It is one that not only, reaches its expected potential and succeeds in its objective, but one that affects society in a way that will be forever remembered.
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America Decades’ “Mobile Telephones” writes of this device as the root of the cell phone saying, “The walkie-talkie, developed in the late 1930s, was one of the first practical applications of mobile communications. Along with the first mobile telephone, invented in 1941, the walkie-talkie used radio waves to communicate” (1). While the origin of the cell phone can be traced back to walkie-talkies used in World War II, the modern day cell phone’s origins can be found in the mobile phone. Cell phones are also known as mobile phones because of the place where they began: inside automobiles. Though, these car phones were not completely personal devices, as one needed to use it inside a vehicle. Richard Frenkiel’s essay, “A Brief History of Mobile Communications”, examines the start of the cell phone that people are familiar with today, writing, “The first cellular system in the U.S. was put into operation by the Bell System in
Chicago, in 1983, as part of a rapid deployment plan. Systems were also being installed in Japan and Europe, the beginning of a worldwide deployment that has now touched virtually every corner of the Earth” (3). After decades of evolution, the cellular phone had finally emerged as a consumer