• The Rotary Telephone first came

into use in 1916 despite its

invention in 1904.

• Rotary telephones were worked

manually by dialling a number
they replaced the old operator
system, whereby an operator
would have to connect you to
whoever you wished to speak
with.
(R.S Kimball 1946)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIDw75mUl6c&

Rotary Telephone
 The Red Telephone Box
• The K2 design originated in a Post Office
competition in 1924 requiring designers to
come up with plans for a new standard
kiosk to succeed the various designs
proliferating across the country.
• Previously kiosk design had been
determined by the individual telephone
companies.
• The winning design, which arrived on the
streets of Britain in 1926, was a design by
Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, the architect
responsible for Liverpool's Anglican
Cathedral.
(
http://heritage.elettra.co.uk/phonebox/k2.html 24/2/2011
)

Contemporary context
• They are now a British icon.
• Although not many people use these icons today it bought using the
telephone on the go in to the forefront of the mind.

• This need for communication on the go must have been inspiration for
phone developers around the world.
• After the II world war
phones became a
design feature of the
home.

Telephone
• The design industry

Design
boomed after the war,
this period was known
as ‘mid century modern’
it included architecture,
interior and product
design.
• Looks and colour
played a part in the
design of phones:
 The swap from switch board jobs

... To mobile phone

customer service and
sales.
 The Internet!
• ‘The internet is a global network of computers linked together by the
telephone system’ (Parson J, 2004)
A very brief timeline.
• 1960 The US military links up all its large computers, forming a network
known as ARPANET
• Late 1970s - Users can now interact with computer data by clicking on icons
and windows on the screen with a screen and a mouse.
• 1980 - ARPANET becomes the internet, as US military withdraw from the
network and it is used increasingly by universities and colleges.
• 1981 - The first IBM personal computers using MS-DOS became available.
•1990 - Use of the Internet and email become widespread.
• 2001 - A web server the size of a match head is produced.
(Parson J, 2004)
• 2001 - Broadband internet becomes widely available.
• 2010 - Fibre optic broadband becomes available.
The effects of the internet
• Increase in email, and therefore improved communication across large
distances.
• Improvements in business links.
• Improvements in education possibilities.
• Online shopping.
1G - 1st generation wireless

Wireless Phone Technology

technology.
• The first cellular mobile Motorola DynaT
phones released used 1G 8000X
technology. 1G technology
uses analog radio signal.

2G - 2nd generation wireless

technology.
• 2G was the first digital
wireless service, all
conversations were digitally
encrypted. 2G also saw the
introduction of text
messaging and was first
introduced in finland in 1991

Nokia 3310
3G - 3rd generation wireless
technology.
• Saw the increase in possible data
transfer
• This also allowed for mobile
broadband for the use in laptops.
• First released in Japan in 2001 but
with limited area. It became more
widespread in 2002

4G - 4th generation wireless

technology.
• Technically in two forms, of Samsung
Phone F480 Tocco 3G
‘advanced’ 3G which allows for further
increase in data transfer and a wider
range.

Iphone 4
 The Smartphone Generation

‘Mobile is the
Mobile World Congress)
future’ (Claudine Beaumont, Technology Editor at

The phone is no longer just a device

it's fundamental to everything you do." - "it's your alter ego -
‘Google is now a "mobile first" business, with programmers
and developers building mobile versions of applications and
software before they built the desktop versions.’
(Eric Schmidt, Google's chairman and chief executive, 2010)
 Social networking
We all know what it is right?...
... Just incase..

‘Any website designed to allow multiple users to publish content themselves. The
information may be on any subject and may be for consumption by (potential) friends,
mates, employers, employees, etc. The sites typically allow users to create a "profile"
describing themselves and to exchange public or private messages and list other users or
groups they are connected to in some way.’ (The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, Denis Howe 2010
http://foldoc.org)

A regional head of security has been removed from his post following clashes with
protesters in the Libyan town of al-Bayda on Wednesday which left several people dead,
local media say.
The move came as anti-government activists called for a "day of anger" via social
networking sites.
The Future

Text
• http://www.myinsulators.com/commokid/telephones/1950s

• Parson, Jane, Illustrated Family Encyclopaedia, 2004,

Dorling Kindersley Ltd 2004

• R.S Kimball, Popular Science Monthly, August 1946

• Ericsson, Samsung Make LTE Connection OCTOBER

23, 2009 | Ray Le Maistre (
http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=18352
) 27/02/2011