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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 ...
Alexander Graham Bell was awarded the first U.S. patent for the invention of the telephone in 1876. Elisha Gray, 1876, designed a telephone using a water microphone in Highland Park, Illinois. Tivadar Puskás proposed the telephone switchboard exchange in 1876. Thomas Edison invented the carbon microphone which produced a strong telephone ...
A DynaTAC 8000X; the first commercially available mobile phone from 1983. Electrical engineer Martin Cooper of Motorola made the first publicized handheld mobile phone call on a prototype DynaTAC model on April 3, 1973. This is a reenactment in 2007. The DynaTAC is a series of cellular telephones manufactured by Motorola from 1983 to 1994.
1667 to 1875. 1667: Robert Hooke creates an acoustic string telephone that conveys sounds over a taut extended wire by mechanical vibrations. [ 1 ][ 2 ] 1844: Innocenzo Manzetti first suggests the idea of an electric "speaking telegraph", or telephone. 1849: Antonio Meucci demonstrates a communicating device to individuals in Havana.
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] The history of mobile phones covers mobile communication devices that connect wirelessly to the ...
From Finland the Nokia 1011 was introduced in 1992, as the first mass-market battery-powered portable cell phone. From Canada the BlackBerry Pearl reached an upscale market after 2006 when T-Mobile US bundled it to subscribers. [31] By 2000 most of the 111 million cell phone subscribers talked on them while driving.
The Ericsson DBH 1001 of 1931 was a collaborative project between the Elektrisk Bureau in Oslo, Televerket (Sweden) and Lars Magnus Ericsson (1846–1926). It was designed by Norwegian electrical engineer Johan Christian Bjerknes (1889-1983) and Norwegian artist and designer Jean Heiberg (1884–1976). It was the first Bakelite phone with ...
1900: first television displayed only black and white images. Over the next decades, colour television were invented, showing images that were clearer and in full colour. 1914: First North American transcontinental telephone calling; 1927: Television. See: History of television; 1927: First commercial radio-telephone service, U.K.–U.S.