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Day in the Life: Marty Cooper
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Marty Cooper was born on December 26, 1928 in Chicago, Illinois where he later grew up to become a legendary American engineer who shaped the wireless communication industry. In 1950, Marty Cooper graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), and later joined the U.S. Navy and served in the Korean War. After the war, he joined the Teletype Corporation, a company that is responsible for the research, development, and manufacturing of data and record communications equipment, and later worked for Motorola in 1954. During his time at Motorola, not only did he earn his Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering at IIT, but he also worked on multiple projects, such as the first radio-controlled traffic-light system and the first handheld police radios.
Even after all of his amazing contributions to Motorola, he continued to push himself and took on the challenge of inventing the first handheld cellular mobile phone, which weighed about 2.5 pounds. Cooper later served as Motorola’s
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Martin Cooper (inventor)
American engineer (born 1928)
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 a Manhattan sidewalk to his counterpart at competitor Bell Labs.[4][5] Cooper reprised the first handheld cellular mobile phone (distinct from the car phone) in 1973 and led the team that redeveloped it and brought it to market in 1983.[6][7] He is considered the "father of the (handheld) cell phone".[2][6][8][9]
Cooper is co-founder of numerous communications companies with his wife and business partner Arlene Harris;[10] He is co-founder and current Chairman of Dyna LLC, in Del Mar, California. Cooper also sits on committees supporting the U.S. Federal Communications Commission[11] and
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Introduction
Surely you have said this! In fact, how many times would you have said it? Have you tried doing that with a telephone? A phone connected to a solid copper wire. Do you have a landline at home? Wouldn’t it look ridiculous to have a tangible tail of wire following you everywhere you go? What a mess it would be if everyone had this copper tail. Either no one would go around with it or a chaos of wires would havoc the streets. Its sheer madness! But wait, why am I talking about this?
I can hear 20th century yelling “MO….B...I……L….E………….. P…H….O…N….EEEEE!!!!!”
Yes, I have heard of mobile phones. I have one myself. Kids in sixth-seventh grade are using cell phones these days. Well it’s not a big deal, but way back in 1970s… it was! Till then, no one knew what mobile phones were, as there weren’t any. The only way you could talk on a phone was through a landline or a car radio. Heck! Even the landlines were wired, not cordless. You probably
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