print email comment close AT&T Technology Timeline URL: http://www.corp.att.com/attlabs/reputation/timeline/ Description: This timeline features descriptions of telecommunication, sound, and data technology developments starting with the birth of the telephone in 1876. Some of the of the events include fax service (1924), sound motion pictures (1926), synthetic speech (1936), the first mobile telephone call (1946), the first direct-dial transcontinental telephone call (1951), UNIX and the Internet (1969), and quantum computing (1999). From AT&T. Publisher: AT&T Extra Keywords fiber optic LII Database Information: Record 24810 created by Jennifer English on 10/29/2007 Last modification on 10/31/2007 Published: 11/08/2007   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/24810