Mobile Technology 1922 Style

Here's a neat little piece of history. A silent video from 1922 has surfaced showing two women with a complicated mobile phone that takes two to operate. The captions seem to be making fun of women's need to talk all the time and their husbands who will be stuck carrying the apparatus. The phone features an old fashioned battery pack that has to be grounded, in this case to a fire hydrant, and an umbrella that doubles for an antenna. Check out the vid