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    Default Mobile phone in Chaplin's Circus (1928) ?

    Have any of y'all seen this? A cell-phone in 1928? Kind of interesting.

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

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    You mean they had cell towers back then?

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    I guess that was pre-Bluetooth...
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    Why is this on every forum I frequent?
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    because logical thinking is dead in our world.

    BTW they did have cell phones back then. It was called Markoni Wireless transmittrers

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    Quote Originally Posted by Treibenschnell View Post
    I say it was Hal-thing having a midlife crisis, wandering thru Hollywood.

    I'd say he was in his mid 60's then.
    That's a woman.


    Actually it is a woman using a photophone invinted in the 1880's by Bell. By 1928, they were much smaller than the original prototype that was patented.

    wiki/Photophone

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    she is doing it wrong


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