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Martin Cooper (inventor) Martin Cooper (born December 26, 1928) 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, 1973, he placed the first public call from a handheld portable cell phone while working at Motorola, from ...
Martin Cooper. Martin or Marty Cooper may refer to: Martin Cooper (musicologist) (1910–1986), English music critic and author. Martin Cooper (inventor) (born 1928), designer of the first mobile phone. Marty Cooper (musician) (born 1942), American musician. Martin Cooper (rugby union) (born 1948), England international rugby union player.
Ray Tomlinson. Raymond Samuel Tomlinson (April 23, 1941 – March 5, 2016) was an American [1][2][3][4] computer programmer who implemented the first email program on the ARPANET system, the precursor to the Internet, in 1971; [5][6][7][8] It was the first system able to send mail between users on different hosts connected to ARPANET.
Signature. Vinton Gray Cerf (/ sɜːrf /; born June 23, 1943) is an American Internet pioneer and is recognized as one of "the fathers of the Internet", sharing this title with TCP/IP co-developer Bob Kahn. [2][7][8][9][10] He has received honorary degrees and awards that include the National Medal of Technology, [2] the Turing Award, [11] the ...
Otto Lilienthal (1848–1896) died from injuries sustained in a crash of his hang glider. [7] Percy Pilcher (1867–1899) died after crashing his glider, having been prevented from demonstrating his powered aircraft. Franz Reichelt (1879–1912), a tailor, fell to his death from the first deck of the Eiffel Tower during the initial test of a ...
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Bede Liu. Bob Kahn (born December 23, 1938) is an American electrical engineer who, along with Vint Cerf, first proposed the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and the Internet Protocol (IP), the fundamental communication protocols at the heart of the Internet. In 2004, Kahn won the Turing Award with Vint Cerf for their work on TCP/IP.
Died. 24 December 2000. (2000-12-24) (aged 77) Occupation. Car maker. John Newton Cooper OBE (17 July 1923 – 24 December 2000) was a co-founder, with his father Charles Cooper, of the Cooper Car Company. Born in Surbiton, Surrey, United Kingdom, he became an auto racing legend with his rear-engined chassis design that would eventually change ...