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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.


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

Maybe that girl is just scratching an itch.


61 posted on 07/26/2014 8:08:08 PM PDT by Rockpile
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To: Dallas59

The first car phones descended from pre-war ship to shore phones I think and Bell brought out the first ones right after WW 2. The service was limited at first to the east and mid-West but oddly enough they had two towers out here in the oil patch —— Midland and Odessa. Well, maybe that is not so odd considering the dispersed nature of oil production operations.


62 posted on 07/26/2014 8:30:01 PM PDT by Rockpile
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To: IllumiNaughtyByNature
Umm, cell towers are .... where?

Don't interrupt the reality of the the liberal arts graduates of the past 20 years.

63 posted on 07/26/2014 9:20:59 PM PDT by gura (If Allah is so great, why does he need fat sexually confused fanboys to do his dirty work? -iowahawk)
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To: catnipman

We’ve got the technology for something even better. I’m surprised we don’t have wrist phones on the market.


64 posted on 07/26/2014 9:33:59 PM PDT by Rides_A_Red_Horse (Why do you need a fire extinguisher when you can call the fire department?)
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To: Dallas59

Wow - we’ve “progressed” to the point that we forgot about the walkie-talkies that naturally followed widespread radio use into the public market.


65 posted on 07/27/2014 3:23:02 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: Dallas59

well........ but TV came about much sooner than
i previously thought too. I read an old newspaper online
about an experiment using TV during an Atlantic crossing
of a steamship... i want to say sometime in the 30s.!?


67 posted on 07/27/2014 4:47:09 AM PDT by urtax$@work (The only kind of memorial is a Burning memorial !)
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To: Dallas59

btw, looks like the dame is holding something the Fuller Brush man sold her.


68 posted on 07/27/2014 4:48:50 AM PDT by urtax$@work (The only kind of memorial is a Burning memorial !)
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To: Dallas59
using a modern cell phone back in 1938

Is there no limit to gullibility?

In 1938, there was no packet switching, there were no cell towers, and the device had no antenna.

69 posted on 07/27/2014 5:35:36 AM PDT by MosesKnows (Love many, trust few, and always paddle your own canoe.)
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To: gura
LOL, my screen name should tell you, I'm always willing to listen to what yer' preaching, but even this one made me stop and ... what? That makes no sense!

The Liberal Arts Grad understanding of science can be summed up withe the phrase "....it's turtles, all the way down."

the infinite regress paradox.

70 posted on 07/27/2014 9:02:15 AM PDT by IllumiNaughtyByNature ($1.84 - The price of a gallon of gas on Jan. 20th, 2009.)
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