• The first real mobile phone was tested by the Swedish police
in 1946.
• About six calls were made before the battery ran out.
• But modern mobile telephony began on April 3rd,
1973, when a call was made while walking the streets of
New York.
• In October 1981, the first cell phone network with automatic roaming between countries was set up in the Nordic countries.
• Since then, an incredible number of cell phones has been sold
and the system has been much more successful than people
originally thought.
• Today, in most of Europe, wealthy parts of Asia and Australasia, mobile phones
is owned by the majority of the adult, teenage, and even
child population.
• Relatively cheap and quick to install, mobile phone networks have also been introduced throughout the developing world.
• In the future, more features will be included in mobile
phones from other handheld devices.
• This Has already happened to some extent, with MP3
players, digital cameras, etc.
• New technologies and applications for mobile phones are constantly developing.
• However, some people say that the mobile phone of
the future will be implanted in our own bodies.
• In fact, research has been carried out on a device that was implanted into a tooth and the sound was transmitted through the bones and into the ear.
Madame Tussaud's is the world famous wax Museum, which is located in London. He also has branches in Amsterdam, Hong Kong, Las Vegas, Copenhagen, new York, Hong Kong.
In the Museum you can find quite a well-known figures, stars of show-business, cinema, music, members of the Royal family.
Founded the Museum of Marie Гросхольц, which was a renowned master of wax Paris.
in 1884, the grandson of Marie posted works in the Museum close to Baker Street, where they are to this day.
Since that time, the Museum reflects what is happening in the world. At the moment the Museum includes more than 1000 фигурвыдающихся figures of the modern age. There appear exhibits all new and new stars of modern society, such as Kylie Minogue, pierce Brosnan, Michael Jackson and Elvis Presley.
Has recently been made an assessment of the Museum, and experts came to the conclusion that the Museum of Madam Tussaud it is worth about a billion pounds, which is about 2 billion dollars.
In spite of the fact that now a Museum, it is difficult to imagine that it all began with the fact that Marie Tussaud's rummaging in the tombs of Royal persons, taking off their masks, to make its shape. Then, perhaps, it was not that her creations are so popular.
A separate part of the Museum and the directions of the work of the Museum is exposition of works of Jeff wall.