#VantageReels: This day in history: In 1963, the first push-button telephones were introduced in the US | #FPRewind with @palkisharmaupadhyay They replaced the rotary-dial models. The original touch-tone phones had 10 buttons. But in 1968, the star and hash keys were added. #VantageOnFirstpost | Firstpost

☎️📱These days almost everyone has a telephone either at home or as a pocket-sized supercomputer. Telephone technology has evolved very fast since the Gallows model was released in the century before last. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Scotsman Alexander Graham Bell registered a patent for the predecessor to the telephone 146 years ago today, on February 14, 1876. Fun fact: Did you know that Bell was not actually the inventor of the telephone? Several researchers, including German scientists Johann Philipp Reis