Chapter 1862 The Future of Communications?

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Laughter filled a certain lab, as several people gathered around with glistening eyes. "I can't believe it!... Your majesty… I can't believe it actually works!!" Minister Abudaby placed the small device to his ears, feeling the flicking wrist movements to be so cool. Hey… "Old Lester, I'm leaving you a Voicemail now…." Abudaby coughed boldly before raising his voice in a tone he felt was cool and strong. "Minister Abudaby here, from the Department of Communications here… Testing, testing… Do call back at your earliest convenience at ×××-×××-××××."

Pup! Abudaby dropped the call and everyone quickly urged Lester to follow his Majesty's instructions. And soon, they heard Abudaby's voice replay on speaker from Lester's Prototype phone. "Amazing! It truly works"

"Marvelous! Truly splendid, your Majesty… I would expect nothing less from a great mind like yours. And Overseer Wilfred, it is amazing that you and your workers were also able to accomplish such a historical feat beautifully."

"Yes, your names will all go down in history for this one."

"Indeed… It seems the his majesty and empire's money was well spent by you all…. You can expect more funding in the following weeks to come."

Clap, clap, clap, clap, clap~

All ministers, military personnel and those invited over, were truly impressed by what the grand demonstration shown. Landon smiled, also satisfied by what Wilfred and his people had done. Tim was the Chief Overseer in charge of several industries, but just below him were several sub-overseers in charge of their prospective industries. And wouldn't you know it, Wilfred was one of those overseers in charge of making landline phones… And a few months ago, he gave Wilfred the task of creating the world's first Cell Phones!

That's right, he said it… Cell phones.

Understand that he didn't task them with creating the first batch of cellphones, but asked them to create the first 5 prototypes.

They already understood how telecommunications worked since they have been making landlines for years now. So making the first prototype wasn't so difficult, especially under Landon's guidance.

Landon massaged his chin thoughtfully when thinking of how close he was to achieving his ultimate goal.

'At this rate, it won't be long before we reach Earth's level, but I can't stop there… Before I pass, Hertfilia must enter the Galactic Era!' Landon's eyes shone with brilliance when thinking of the rewards promised to him by the system after Air travel gets launched. Satellites, Rockets and all information about Space travel!

With the insane help of these Spider builders, Landon estimated that it would take no more than 2 months to build the first rocket if he allowed 120 Spiders to work on Rocket construction all at once. Of course for satellite construction, the time would be far less. Rocket construction and satellite construction will have to be done simultaneously since satellites are mostly launched into space by hitching rides on rockets. Constructing these Satellites and rockets wasn't necessarily the time-consuming part of the operation.

Training Astronauts and also teaching information about space stations, satellite and rocket designs is what will consume most of the project's time.

In May, Project Space Travel must commence!

And for the next 8 months, they must be grilled rigorously to his satisfaction. For Landon, the first ever workers in the Space station must be the astronomers, astrologists, and those in Baymard already studying space. It's easier to train people who already understand a majority of space concepts taught in the Academy of Atmospheric & Hertfilian Science.

To be honest, the Space station will be a universal Space Station that welcomes all Ally empires. So they will hire astronauts from all empire nations to go out of space. Likewise, they will hire people from allied empires to work in specific departments within the Space station. Of course, only the Baymardians will have access to everything.

As usual, the allied empires will only have access to some jobs, while non-ally empires will have access to NONE.

Anyway… Space travel was one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. Novel Fire - novelfire.net

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Amazing! AMAZING!

Everyone was pleased with the prototypes they tested. Landon made 5 design types.

First, it was important to note that since <Touch screen> isn't invented yet, the phones all had keypads available.

Mark, Joah, Gary and Trey were also here. It was quite rare for all of them to be in Baymard at the same time with one not out on a mission or swamp in their desks at work. They were no longer single men but married with children now. Landon sighed, recalling their former appearances when everyone first came to Baymard.

Time sure does fly…

"Hey, bro… I like this one!" Gary had his hand around Landon's shoulder's lifting the Flip phone high.

As mentioned in the meeting, there were 5 design types.

The first one was the flip phone that looked to be an early 2000s flip phone version with the screen on one cover of the flip phone and the dial pad and buttons on the other.

It was more sleek and less bulky than the flip phones in the 90s… this phone was getting close in appearance to the slender phones used back on Earth.

In 2000 music videos, one can see these slender flip phones used by famous artists. Landon modeled the design after the Motorola RAZR. The 2nd design was the iconic 90's Nokia style brick phones with a little antenna on the side. This was a bulky and firm phone Landon predicted would be great for workers working outdoors in farms, construction sites and so on. It would be a great company cell phone given to employees.

The 3rd was similar to the 2nd, and was a basic phone with no antenna. It would also make a great cost-effective company phone. Landon modeled it after the simple Nokia 3310.

The 4th and 5th designs were 2 others that Landon predicted would be a majority for young people. The 4th design was the largest phone design out of the 5. It had a wider screen and a lot more buttons too. Of course, it was designed to look like Blackberry's iconic phones. He modeled it after Blackberry's Bold 9000 model.

Finally, the 5th phone was designed after another Blackberry model called the Blackberry Torch 9800… This wasn't a flip phone, but a slider phone. You slide the phone up to reveal the buttons underneath. Already, Gary, Josh, March and Trey had burning eyes when looking at the designs that made their hearts throb.

Damn! Why was next March so far away? Everyone wanted these cellphone-thingies now!

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