Complex sentence: Tigerstedt's ideas also presaged such future inventions as the television and the mobile phone, and in 1917, he lodged a patent for what he described a "pocket-size, folding telephone with a very thin carbon microphone".
Split into simpler sentences: Tigerstedt's ideas also presaged such future inventions as the television and the mobile phone. In 1917, he lodged a patent for what he described as a "pocket-size, folding telephone with a very thin carbon microphone".