Marty Cooper And The Origins Of The First Cell Phone


Marty Cooper And The Origins Of The First Cell Phone
In the 1960s and early ’70s, if you wanted to make a phone call, you did so from a device wired to the telephone grid. When AT&T launched their cellular system for car phones, Dr. Martin “Marty” Cooper and his team at Motorola decided to build a truly wireless mobile phone, a handheld device that would truly free consumers to communicate on the go.

April 24, 2015 at 11:49AM
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