Wednesday, May 26th, 2010
From The Telegraph: British film archivists yesterday have released footage which apparently shows the world’s first mobile phone being used – in 1922. They…attach a wire from the device onto a fire hydrant before erecting an umbrella which has been converted into an aerial. Read the article and watch the black-and-white silent video. In other [...]
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