Like the fax machine, which was invented in 1843, mobile phones have been around far longer than commonly perceived, with Lars Magnus Ericsson, founder of the Ericsson communications company, developing the concept in 1910, for use as a car phone.
From 1910 on it appears that Lars Magnus Ericsson and his wife Hilda regularly worked the first car telephone. Yes, this was the man who founded Ericsson in 1876. Although he retired to farming in 1901, and seemed set in his ways, his wife Hilda wanted to tour the countryside in that fairly new contraption, the horseless carriage. Lars was reluctant to go but soon realized he could take a telephone along.
