The life of martin cooper
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Martin Cooper (inventor)
American engineer (born )
Martin Cooper (born December 26, ) is an American engineer. He is a pioneer in the wireless communications industry, especially in radio spectrum management, with eleven patents in the field.[2][3]
On April 3, , he placed the first public call from a handheld portable cell phone while working at Motorola, from a Manhattan sidewalk to his counterpart at competitor Bell Labs.[4][5] Cooper reprised the first handheld cellular mobile phone (distinct from the car phone) in and led the team that redeveloped it and brought it to market in [6][7] He is considered the "father of the (handheld) cell phone".[2][6][8][9]
Cooper is co-founder of numerous communications companies with his wife and business partner Arlene Harris;[10] He is co-founder and current Chairman of Dyna LLC, in Del Mar, California. Cooper also sits on comm
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‘Father of cell phone’ reflects on making first call and history 50 years ago
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Fifty years ago, Martin Cooper, an engineer for Motorola, stood nervously along 6th Avenue in New York City, about to do something that had never been done before.
He reached into his pocket for a little telephone book and dialed a number. Then a connection was made, and the individ on the other end picked up. It was his competitor, Joel Engel, at Bell Labs.
“And I said, ‘Hi, Joel, it&#;s Marty Cooper.’ And he said, ‘Oh, Hi, Marty.’ And inom said, ‘Joel, I&#;m calling you from a cell phone. But a real cell phone, a handheld, personal, portable cell phone,’” said Cooper. “As you could tell, I was not averse to rubbing it in.”
This was the first cell phone call ever made. It was a call that would revolutionize communications and change life as we know it.
How a c
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Introduction
Surely you have said this! In fact, how many times would you have said it? Have you tried doing that with a telephone? A phone connected to a solid copper wire. Do you have a landline at home? Wouldn’t it look ridiculous to have a tangible tail of wire following you everywhere you go? What a mess it would be if everyone had this copper svans. Either no one would go around with it or a chaos of wires would havoc the streets. Its sheer madness! But wait, why am inom talking about this?
I can hear 20th century yelling “MO….BI……L….E………….. P…H….O…N….EEEEE!!!!!”
Yes, I have heard of mobile phones. I have one myself. Kids in sixth-seventh grade are using cell phones these days. Well it’s not a big deal, but way back in s… it was! Till then, no one knew what mobile phones were, as there weren’t any. The only way you could talk on a phone was throug