Throwback Technology

TBT – Throwback Technology

In today’s issue of Throwback Technology, we have a mobile phone from 1916, on a World War 1 battlefield. It has been 99 years since this photograph was taken.

A German field telephone station in the Aisne department of northern France during World War I, circa 1916. (Photo by Paul Thompson/FPG/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
A German field telephone station in the Aisne department of northern France during World War I, circa 1916. (Photo by Paul Thompson/FPG/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)