From 1953

[Subdeacon Joe]

 

In 1953 Jumbo Johnson appeared in the British childrens comic "The Beano".
He had a model army and air force operated by a remote controller
strapped to his arm.

60 years later came the X-47.

 

Fiction becoming reality.

[Badger Mountain Charlie SASS #43172]

How about Dick Tracy and his WRIST RADIO and today's cell phones.

[Alpo]

I don't consider Dick Tracy's wrist radio to be a cell phone. It's like the communications the Secret Service uses.

 

Star Trek communicators - now, those are cell phones.

[Badger Mountain Charlie SASS #43172]

Probably not, but there is a similar technological jump.

 

In 1953 radio was still very much in demand and TV was the new kid on the block.

 

ALL telephones were land lines.

[Four-Eyed Buck,SASS #14795]

They are just coming out with wrist phones now,look like wrist watches

[FriscoCounty]

Probably not, but there is a similar technological jump.

 

In 1953 radio was still very much in demand and TV was the new kid on the block.

 

ALL telephones were land lines.

 

Don't forget about Paul Drake and his car phone. Mobile Telephone Service was introduced about 1948. While it was extremely rare, with only 5,000 or so subscribers, it did exist.

[Gunner Gatlin, SASS 10274L]

Probably not, but there is a similar technological jump.

 

In 1953 radio was still very much in demand and TV was the new kid on the block.

 

ALL telephones were land lines.

 

Yup.

 

GG ~

[Utah Bob #35998]

"The nation that controls magnetism will control the universe"

[Badger Mountain Charlie SASS #43172]

Yep. I remember my Dad repeating that.

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

British comics characters using American Sikorsky helicopters and C-82 Packets? HMMMM!