Different phones

There are a lot of different types of telephone that you can buy which range between different styles and looks and greater functionality and stuff.

The first telephones were hand cranked and attached to the wall. They had to be cranked to generate the electricity before it could be sent across the phone line by the switchboard.

The phone then developed to become slightly more portable but still had to be hand cranked.

Hand cranking to generate power became obsolete and the phone became much more symmetrical in design.

Some phones went for this design where the mouth piece was attached to the main part of the phone and the listening part was on a wire hanging from the main telephone. Phone design also became very important.

This is the typical kind of shape of a landline wired phone.

Comical and novelty phones are also quite common.