10 Odd Things You Probably Didn't Know About the History of Radio

4. Cellphones Are Radio Transmitters/Receivers Conceived a Century Ago

10 Radio Oddities

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Cell phones (really small radio transmitters and receivers) were predicted as far back as 1901. On November 4 of that year, the Los Angeles Times quoted a commentator in the London Spectator as saying, “Some day men and women will carry wireless telephones as today we carry a card case or camera."*

(*For more, see: United States Early Radio History by Thomas H White)

• 1. Radio Wasn't the Only Name Considered for Radio
• 2. Concerts by Telegraph
• 3. The Musical Telephone
• 4. Cellphones Are Radio Transmitters/Receivers Conceived a Century Ago
• 5. Dots a Lot of Dashes!
• 6. Worthless Stocks and Trophy Wives
• 7. Marconi and Wireless Power: Wack Job or Prophet?
• 8. Radio in Roller Chairs - (What's a Roller Chair?)
• 9. Corny Song About Radio a Big Hit in 1921
• 10. Evil Radio Was Created to Enslave All Mankind