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Is this the world's first cell phone? Film from 1938 shows a woman talking on a wireless device
Mailonline ^ | 3/31/2014 | Mailonline

Posted on 07/26/2014 3:49:55 PM PDT by Dallas59

Edited on 04/11/2015 2:52:34 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

The mystery of how a woman could have been filmed while using a modern cell phone back in 1938 seems to have finally been solved.

Black and white footage of a young female chatting into a wireless handset - said to have been filmed at a factory in the United States in the 30s - has attracted over 300,000 plays on YouTube.


(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Computers/Internet; Conspiracy; History
KEYWORDS: 1938; aliens; cellphone; timetravel; ufos
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To: VanDeKoik

Might be talking to Eva.


21 posted on 07/26/2014 4:09:11 PM PDT by Dallas59
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To: Dallas59
Hitler?

I believe you're right. Didn't he run a vote-buying program, giving free Hitlerphones to "the poor", funded with taxpayer dollars?
22 posted on 07/26/2014 4:09:23 PM PDT by LostInBayport (When there are more people riding in the cart than there are pulling it, the cart stops moving...)
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To: lee martell

“Walkie-Talkies were around then, I’m pretty sure, probably used in the military. The poor mans’ cell phone is still sold today.”

No, in 1939 the transistor had not been invented yet. There were crude military transceivers but they had vacuum tubes in them and huge batteries. Hardly a Walkie-Talkie.


23 posted on 07/26/2014 4:12:23 PM PDT by babygene ( .)
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To: Dallas59
This is what I think before reading on...just my observation.

If you look at the lady in front of her, she is holding a similar sized object...probably a small purse.

Then look at everyone else...It's not bothering them a bit. She may just have an itch.

24 posted on 07/26/2014 4:18:05 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: LostInBayport

LOL!!

But, wait....time travelers are real....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fm9DwwsCSb0


25 posted on 07/26/2014 4:18:50 PM PDT by Jane Long ("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
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To: tet68

I just wrote exactly what you wrote. It’s called observation.


26 posted on 07/26/2014 4:19:46 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Dallas59

Here’s another time traveler:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3076993/posts


27 posted on 07/26/2014 4:19:50 PM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: Oldexpat

About that same time (1980) we had a mobile phone in our Suburban but you could’t take it out of the truck. I remember thinking how amazing that was.


28 posted on 07/26/2014 4:21:02 PM PDT by Ditter
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To: Dallas59

Geez, it coulda been a transister radio or a walkie talkie or an electric razor.....


29 posted on 07/26/2014 4:23:04 PM PDT by umgud (I couldn't understand why the ball kept getting bigger......... then it hit me.)
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To: Dallas59

Any fool knows that isn’t a cell phone, it’s a shoe phone.


30 posted on 07/26/2014 4:23:09 PM PDT by dirtboy
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

How about : ice in a hand towel for a swelling from a bee sting?


31 posted on 07/26/2014 4:23:17 PM PDT by ArtDodger
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To: Dallas59

It wasn’t the first cell phone. That was 1928:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6RjpD1vwh8


32 posted on 07/26/2014 4:24:16 PM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: ArtDodger

I have a hard time believing women cut their hair that way back then, let alone what was in their purse.


33 posted on 07/26/2014 4:30:25 PM PDT by txhurl (2014: Stunned Voters do Stunning Things!)
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To: txhurl

Her eye looks swollen. I think it is ice in a towel.


34 posted on 07/26/2014 4:33:47 PM PDT by ArtDodger
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To: jjotto
It wasn’t the first cell phone. That was 1928:

You can't have a cell phone without cells and corresponding cell towers.

Whatever that device in her hand is, a cell phone it ain't.

35 posted on 07/26/2014 4:34:25 PM PDT by publius911 ( Politicians come and go... but the (union) bureaucracy lives and grows forever.)
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To: VanDeKoik

Not to mention all his U-Toob rants ....


36 posted on 07/26/2014 4:37:44 PM PDT by mikrofon (Das Internazi)
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To: publius911

hehe


37 posted on 07/26/2014 4:37:59 PM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: ArtDodger

Odd eye-teeth. Pack of Vampire Lesbians? What’s with the flanking guard?


38 posted on 07/26/2014 4:39:56 PM PDT by txhurl (2014: Stunned Voters do Stunning Things!)
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To: umgud

Transistors weren’t available until after WWII.


39 posted on 07/26/2014 4:43:44 PM PDT by wideawake
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To: Dallas59

And the girl in the first photo, second from the right is texting! OMG!!!!!!


40 posted on 07/26/2014 4:44:11 PM PDT by US_MilitaryRules (The last suit you wear has no pockets!)
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