EOTO on the Pager

The Pager

   The pager was created/put into use in 1921 by the Detroit police department. Although the first telephone pager was not patented til 1949. The inventor was a man named Al Gross. He invented them and were first used in a Jewish hospital. Although throughout the year's multiple people have helped create different things adding to the pager or even creating different versions. Which "In 1960, John Francis Mitchell combined elements of Motorola's walkie-talkie and automobile radio technologies to create the first transistorized pager, and from that time, paging technology continued to advance and pager adoption among emergency personnel is still popular as of July 2016." Many people helped to contribute to making one-way pagers, two-way pagers, and response pagers only. 

      In 1958 pagers were approved by the public by the federal communications commissioner. Although they became more widely used in the 1980s by the people in the public setting. They were made for people in the medical field, policemen, firemen, and other emergency responders in order to communicate with one another effectively and timely. The way that they worked was that one person through either a telephone or an email would send information to a pager that they wanted to talk to. The pager would beep with someone's phone number or information and they would call them or get the message on the screen.

       While pagers are great they help by communicating through dead spots that phones couldn't get to, allowing everyone to get the same message at once, and having a long battery life. The pager has some extreme negative downsides, which is why they have been on the steady decline from popularity ever since cellphones have been the rage. The pager is not very versatile, and you cant reply very easily with a pager it is a multiple-step process to respond with it. The downside as well is that you have to send short amounts of information so it leads to misinformation. Which can cost someone their life or spread the wrong information to many others.

Sources:https://www.thoughtco.com/history-of-pagers-and-beepers-1992315

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pager