Man Predicts Future in 1906. Time Travel? Inventor/Visionary invents cellphone over 100 years ago.

This is an article that appeared in the New York World, April 29, 1906. I found it while researching my book on James E. Kelly (Tell Me of Lincoln).
Kelly was friends with Inventor Charles E. Alden who invented the "Vest Pocket Telephone." He envisioned the modern Cell Phone in 1906--104 years ago!!!
Sorry for the all the movement--it was shot on my cellphone...

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[BobbyBuntasTV]

Thumps up if you think Nikola Tesla definitely chatted up his ideas with this guy!

[defenderoFreedom]

wonder if he thought of downloading apps for his 'vest phone'

[tubub]

@UnderManlac

If history has shown us anything it's that man has proven every impossible thing is in fact possible.

human flight, space travel, artificial intelligence.

Nothing is impossible.

[MaicahRu]

What people don't realise is that people have had ideas long before they became commercial - the first fax machines were invented in the 1840s and transmitting data using the telegraph system

[waketheoblivious]

Motorola had developed plans for analog cellular phones in 1964, but they were not economically feasible until the 1980's when Motorola dominated the hand held and car phone markets. Digital wireless technology followed with the US Government issuing a mandate to build a National Cellular Network that was to be built in strict accordance with Federal, State, County, City, Municipality laws & statutes. Those laws were obliterated including proper legal notice of the proposed construction.

[UnderManlac]

Time travel, to the past, is impossible. I can explain, but there's not enough room here. However, why is it such a strange idea that the guy had an idea that the telephone would become portable some day? There were phones in cars since the 1940's. Telegraphs went wireless in 1887. The guy made a two-way radio, like a walkie-talkie. Not a cell phone, but may have called it a vest phone.

[looneybun1]

sure took technology a long time to catch up with his idea. LOL. by this logic, we wont have the flying cars, hover boards, etc. ala back to the future until approx. 2085-2089. :(

[hofnerman1]

@Mfilipcewicz Thanks I try lol. It pays to do the research. :*)

[adj789]

so where's his invention?

[Alden88]

Past me invented the cell phone!