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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]
Martin Cooper, a former general manager for the systems division at Motorola, led a team that produced the DynaTAC 8000X, the first commercially available cellular phone small enough to be easily carried, and made the first phone call from it. Martin Cooper was the first person to make an analog cellular mobile phone call on a prototype in 1973.
In the 1970s engineer Marty Cooper, an executive at Motorola, fought against archrival AT&T by leading a team that designed the cordless device that made possible the explosion in cellphones. Now ...
1915: The first U.S. coast-to-coast long-distance telephone call, is ceremonially inaugurated by A.G. Bell in New York City and his former assistant Thomas Augustus Watson in San Francisco, California. 1927: The first transatlantic phone call is made, from the United States to the United Kingdom. [30]
1902: The first Australian interstate calls between Mount Gambier and Nelson. [15] 26 February 1914: Boston-Washington underground cable commenced commercial service. [23] 16 January 1915: The first automatic Panel exchange was installed at the Mulberry Central Office in Newark, New Jersey; but was a semi-automatic system using non-dial telephones.
John Francis Mitchell (January 1, 1928 – June 9, 2009) was an American electronics engineer and president and chief operating officer of Motorola. [3] [4]Mitchell led the pioneering development and implementation of Motorola's mobile phone technology producing the first portable transistorized pager and cell phone.
1878: First phone directory printed in Connecticut. Telegraph manager George Coy of New Haven, Connecticut, developed an exchange—the system that allows people to call each other—within a year ...
The Mobile Revolution is a 2014 Swedish documentary written and directed by Magnus Sjöström about the history of the cell phone and how it has impacted human behaviour and society. The documentary was produced by UR, The Swedish Educational Broadcasting Company [2] and was broadcast by SVT in December 2014. It has since also aired in Spain. [3]