Martin cooper age
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Cooper, Martin
American engineer Martin Cooper (born 1928) is often dubbed the father of the mobile phone. In November of 1972, he and a team of associates at the Motorola Company began working on a prototype of the Dyna-Tac phone, and five months later Cooper stood on a Manhattan street and placed the world's first call from a mobile phone. “There were a lot of naysayers over the years,” Cooper admitted in an interview with Investor's Business Daily writer Patrick Seitz. “People would say, ‘Why are we spending all of this money? Are you sure this cellular thing will turn out to be something?’ ”
Cooper was born on December 26, 1928, in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Arthur and Mary Cooper. He was a tinkerer from an early age, recalling in an interview with Seattle Times journalist Yukari Iwatani, “I'd been taking things apart and inventing things since I was a little kid …. I still have memories as a child trying to really understand how things work.” He graduated from the Illinois Institute of Technology in 1950, and from there enlisted in the U.S. Naval Reserves, serving
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8 facts about Martin Cooper, inventor of the cellphone and former VP of Motorola
But who exactly is he, where’s he now, and exactly how did he invent one of the most important gadgets of all time? Read on to know.
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How Martin Cooper invented the cellphone
When AT&T proposed a cellular architecture to expand its car-phone service, Motorola feared that the telecom company would grow into a monopoly. Martin Cooper was placed in charge of the urgent project to develop a cellphone. The result was DynaTAC (Dynamic Adaptive Total Area Coverage), which allowed 35 minutes of talk time before it ran out of battery.
Cooper showed off the first cellphone to AT&T rival
On April 3, 1973, Cooper introduced the DynaTAC phone at a press conference in New York. To make sure that the phone was working before the start of the event, he rang engineer Joel Engel, head of AT&T’s rival project, announcing he was calling from a portable cellphone.
The first commercial cellphone was a success despite the steep price tag
The Motorola DynaTAC 8000X. (Image:- •
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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