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  2. Martin Cooper (inventor) - Wikipedia

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    That first cell phone began a fundamental technology and communications market shift to making phone calls to a person instead of to a place. [6] [19] Bell Labs had introduced the idea of cellular communications in 1947, but their first systems were limited to car phones which required roughly 30 pounds (12 kg) of equipment in the trunk. [21]

  3. History of mobile phones - Wikipedia

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    A man talks on his mobile phone while standing near a conventional telephone box, which stands empty. Enabling technology for mobile phones was first developed in the 1940s but it was not until the mid-1980s that they became widely available. By 2011, it was estimated in Britain that more calls were made using mobile phones than wired devices. [1]

  4. Jesse Russell - Wikipedia

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    Jesse Eugene Russell (born April 26, 1948) is an American inventor. He was trained as an electrical engineer at Tennessee State University and Stanford University, and worked in the field of wireless communication for over 20 years.

  5. W. Rae Young - Wikipedia

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    W. Rae Young in 2006. William Rae Young, Jr. (October 30, 1915 – March 7, 2008) was one of the Bell Labs engineers that invented the cell phone. The history of cellular phone technology began on December 11, 1947 with a Bell Labs internal memo written by Douglas H. Ring describing the idea of Rae Young of the hexagonal cell concept for a cellular mobile telephone system.

  6. Timeline of the telephone - Wikipedia

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    This timeline of the telephone covers landline, radio, and cellular telephony technologies and provides many important dates in the history of the telephone.. Charles Bourseul Johann Philipp Reis Elisha Gray Thomas Edison Alexander Graham Bell Thomas Augustus Watson Tivadar Puskás Emile Berliner Charles Sumner Tainter Theodore Newton Vail

  7. History of telecommunication - Wikipedia

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    The electric telephone was invented in the 1870s, ... technology, information theory and cellular networking led to the development of affordable mobile communications.

  8. Mobile phone - Wikipedia

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    Two decades of evolution of mobile phones, from a 1992 Motorola DynaTAC 8000X to the 2014 iPhone 6 Plus. A mobile phone, or cell phone, [a] is a portable telephone that allows users to make and receive calls over a radio frequency link while moving within a designated telephone service area, unlike fixed-location phones (landline phones).

  9. Douglas H. Ring - Wikipedia

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    Douglas H. Ring (March 28, 1907 in Montana – September 8, 2000 in Red Bank, New Jersey) was one of the Bell Labs engineers that invented the cell phone.The history of cellular phone technology began on December 11, 1947 with an internal memo written by Douglas H. Ring in which he proposed development of a cellular telephone system by AT&T. [1]