Dr Martin Cooper

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Dr. Martin Cooper Inventor Of The Mobile Phone

His early Life : 

His early Life Dr Martin Cooper born on the 26th of December 1928 in Chicago. His parents were immigrants from Ukrainian. He earned a Bachelors and Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering. He was always interested in portable products. When Martin Cooper was first Employed by Motorola he worked on hand radios for the Chicago Police Department. He also served on a U.S. Navy ship during the Korean War in 1950.

The First Mobile Phone Call : 

The First Mobile Phone Call In 1973 Dr. Martin Cooper made the first mobile phone call. He called his rival Joel Engel at AT&T's Bell Labs. He describes in various interviews how he walked down the street in New York talking on his phone and people starring in awe at this amazing technology.

The First Mobile Phone : 

The First Mobile Phone The First mobile phone was 30cm long and weighed 2 pounds. It was called the Motorola DynaTAC 8000X. It cost $3,500!

Later Life : 

Later Life In 1992 Martin Cooper helped form the organisation ArrayComm. ArrayComm originally created more efficient mobile phones. He is now the CEO of ArrayComm who now use adaptive antenna technology to make fast mobile broadband plans such as the i-BURST Personal Broadband System.

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Fat Facts Though it was denied by Martin Cooper himself a TV show called How William Shatner Changed the World has a segment showing him being inspired by the Star Trek Communicator. In 1995 Martin Cooper received the Wharton Infosys Business Transformation Award for all in electrical innovations.

InterviewCourtesy of the BBC : 

InterviewCourtesy of the BBC BBC NEWS ONLINE: Tell us what inspired that vision of a personal handheld phone. MARTY: The time was the late 1960s. There was one telephone company in the US, one in Britain and one in Japan and so forth. In our case it was AT&T and they were the largest company in the world and they had invented this thing called cellular. Their invention was car telephones. Can you imagine? We believed people didn't want to talk to cars and that people wanted to talk to other people and the only way we at Motorola, this little company, could prove this to the world was to actually show we could build a cellular telephone, a personal telephone. Something that would represent an individual so you could assign a number not to a place, not to a desk, not to a home but to a person. BBC: What about that first call on the Manhattan sidewalk - who did you call and what did you say? MARTY: (with a chuckle) Who do you think I called? I called my counterpart at Bell Labs, Joel Engel, and told him: "Joel, I'm calling you from a 'real' cellular telephone. A portable handheld telephone." BBC: How did that feel beating the competition to the main prize? Did you literally punch the air? MARTY: Of course. When you are a competitive entity like we were, it's one of the great satisfactions in life.

Mobile Phones through the Years : 

Mobile Phones through the Years Look at the Changes! 2009

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