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Charles E. Alden is a member of the following lists: 20th-century American people, American inventors and 1864 births.

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Charles E. Alden (fl. 1906) was an American inventor mentioned in a 1906 edition of the New York World who was claimed to have created the idea of a vest pocket telephone, a device that was the precursor of the cell phone. An article titled “Ingenious Yankee Invents Simple Telephone System” appeared in the May 24, 1907 edition of L’Abeille de la Nouvelle-Orléans, a New Orleans newspaper. He envisioned the idea in 1906, 67 years before the first hand-held mobile phone was demonstrated by Dr. Martin Cooper of Motorola in 1973. In 1907, Alden invented and tested a wireless remote-controlled boat off the coast of Martha's Vineyard. This boat was said to have “lifted its own anchor, blows its own whistle, signals, fires a gun and steers” all while the operator is controlling it on shore.