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  • Martin Cooper was born in Liverpool in 1958 and studied art at the Laird School of Art in Birkenhead.
  • Between 1980 and 1989 Martin was a member of the highly successful pop group Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark.
  • Martin has exhibited extensively, both in the UK and overseas, and his pictures hang in many private collections. In recent years he has exhibited at the Williamson Art Gallery (Birkenhead), the Royal Academy of Arts (London), the David Messum Fine Art Gallery (London), W H Patterson (London), Woodhay Picture Gallery (Newbury), Llewellyn Alexander (London), the Brian Sinfield Gallery (Compton Cassey Galleries), Sarah Samuals Fine Art (Chester), Heritage House (Bermuda) and the Fel Gallery (Singapore).
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  • In 1998 Martin was awarded the sponsors prize in the Discerning Eye exhibition which was held at The Mall Gallery in London.
  • Martin lives in Greasby, Merseyside with his wife, Alexandra Bibby, a classical pianist, and their two sons.
  • Nathanael Nix on 14 Jan 14
     
    This is a very good informational website about one of Martin Cooper's previous jobs.
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  • Martin Cooper
  • Martin "Marty" Cooper is an American pioneer and visionary in the wireless communications industry. With eleven patents in the field, he is recognized as an innovator in radio spectrum management.
  • Education: Illinois Institute of Technology (1957), Illinois Institute of Technology (1950)
  • Nathanael Nix on 15 Jan 14
     
    If you look to the right on this Google search, you will see some good information, might not be a lot, but its good.
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Martin Cooper, Father of the Cellular Phone | High Tech History - 0 views

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  • Martin Cooper, who turns 82 on December 26th, is an electrical engineer – having gained his Master’s degree from the Illinois Institute of Technology in 1957.
  • Cooper’s inspiration for undertaking the project was the Star Trek television series, in which a small, hand-held ”communicator” device was used very much in the manner of a portable phone.
  • As I walked down the street while talking on the phone, sophisticated New Yorkers gaped at the sight of someone actually moving around while making a phone call. Remember that in 1973 there weren’t cordless telephones, let alone cellular phones. I made numerous calls, including one where I crossed the street while talking to a New York radio reporter – probably one of the more dangerous things I have ever done in my life.
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  • Interestingly, the first person he called was Joel Engel, his chief rival at AT&T’s Bell Labs, to tell him he was calling on a portable phone.
  • The original phone weighed a gargantuan 30 ounces, and was referred to as the “Brick.”
  • With nearly four decades of success in the telecommunications industry, Cooper’s guiding philosophy is to look to its bright future: It’s very exciting to be a part of a movement toward making broadband available to people with the same freedom to be anywhere that they have for voice communications today. People rely heavily on the Internet for their work, entertainment, and communication, but they need to be unleashed.
  • Nathanael Nix on 15 Jan 14
     
    This is a very good biography about Martin Cooper and the invention of the cell phone. It also has some pictures of him, the phone, and also one of Joe Engal.
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  • Martin Cooper, byname Marty Cooper   (born December 26, 1928, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.), American engineer who led the team that in 1972–73 built the first mobile cell phone and made the first cell-phone call. He is widely regarded as the father of the cellular phone.
  • He joined the U.S. Navy and served during the Korean War. After the war, he joined the Teletype Corporation, and in 1954 he began working at Motorola.
  • On April 3, 1973, Cooper introduced the DynaTAC phone at a press conference in New York City. To make sure that it worked before the press conference, he placed the first public cell-phone call, to engineer Joel Engel, head of AT&T’s rival project, and gloated that he was calling from a portable cellular phone.
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  • At Motorola, Cooper worked on many projects involving wireless communications, such as the first radio-controlled traffic-light system, which he patented in 1960, and the first handheld police radios, which were introduced in 1967. He later served as a vice president and director of research and development (1978–83) for the company.
  • In 1986 he and his partners sold CBSI to Cincinnati Bell for $23 million, and he and his wife, Arlene Harris, founded Dyna, LLC. Dyna served as a central organization from which they launched other companies, such as ArrayComm (1996), which developed software for wireless systems, and GreatCall (2006), which provided wireless service for the Jitterbug, a cell phone with simple features meant for the elderly.
  • Nathanael Nix on 17 Jan 14
     
    This is a good article about Martin Cooper, it has some good information on the cell phone, and some of his other inventions.
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Martin Cooper Facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com articles about Martin Cooper - 0 views

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  • 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?’ ”
  • Nathanael Nix on 14 Jan 14
     
    This is an amazing site about Martin Cooper and the cell phone invention it gives some good information besides the facts that he created the first cell phone.
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  • The Dr. Martin Cooper story is truly an inspirational one, especially for all future scientist, entrepreneurs, and innovators.
  • He was born in Chicago, Illinois on December 26, 1928, and earned his Bachelors and Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology in 1950 and 1957 respectively. Martin Cooper, prior to his employment with Motorola in 1954, served in the Navy for 4 years, working on destroyers, and on submarines. He had also worked for a short time with another telecommunications company, before his historic association with Motorola.
  • today, there are more subscribers to mobile phones, than landlines all over the world, and the number is growing. The communication breakthrough of Martin Cooper did not go unnoticed, as he was awarded the Wharton Infosys Business Award in 1995, for his technological innovations in the communications field; a truly prestigious recognition from a reputable institution.
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  • The mobile phone may be seen as a new technology in our day, but the idea was actually first conceived in the year 1908.
  • This statement is only true because the mobile phone is actually a high-tech radio. In 1908 a man named Nathan B. Stubblefield who lived in Murray, Kentucky applied for the U.S. Patent 887,357 for a wireless telephone; he originally applied his patent to only radio telephones.
  • Martin Cooper did not make the first working mobile phone, he made the first portable mobile phone.
  • Nathanael Nix on 15 Jan 14
     
    This is a good informational sight that has a lot of facts about Martin Cooper, it has some very good information to tell you about Martin Cooper.
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Who invented the cell phone? Cell Phone Inventor Martin Cooper - 0 views

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  • It was April 3, 1973 that the first working prototype of the cell phone was introduced. This was also the day of the first cell phone call being placed by Mr. Cooper. This first prototype was a Motorola Dyna-Tac Phone. The Dyna-Tac cell phone was: 9x5x1.175 inches Had 30 circuit boards Weighed 2.5 pounds A talk time of 35 minutes A recharge time of 10 hours Its only features were talk, listen,and dial
  • Martin Cooper is now the chairman, CEO, and co-founder of a company called Array Communications Incorporated. The main mission of his company is to free the people of the constraints of specific places in which calls can be made, and to do away with the copper wires that constrain them.
  • Array Communications has developed a core adaptive antenna that will increase the basic coverage of any cellular system. They have also created a personal broadband system called i-Burst. This system allows for mobile access to the internet that is affordable for everyone. Martin Cooper had a vision for the nation. He desired mobile capabilities that freed the individual from the constraints of even the wireled landline phones. The race for mobile took serious strides in the 1960′s and 1970′s when Motorola and Bell vied to translate technology to actual application.
  • Nathanael Nix on 15 Jan 14
     
    This is a good website about who invented the cell phone, Martin Cooper. It has some very good facts and information about him and the cell phone.
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  • Martin Cooper is a pioneer in the wireless communications industry, an inventor, entrepreneur and executive. He has had been a contributor to the technology of personal wireless communications for over 50 years He conceived the first portable cellular phone in 1973 and is cited in the Guinness Book of World Records for making the first cellular telephone call.
  • Cooper was a submarine officer in the U.S. Navy, a division manager and head of R&D for Motorola during a  29 year tenure. As an entrepreneur he has started a number of businesses including co-founding GreatCall, Inc., maker of the Jitterbug phone and service and ArrayComm, the world leader in smart antenna technology.
  • Prize: DraperYear: 2013Citation: Pioneering contributions to the world’s first cellular telephone networks, systems, and standards.
  • Nathanael Nix on 15 Jan 14
     
    This is a pretty good biography about Martin Cooper, It has some pretty good information in it.
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  • Cooper also has a “law” named after him.  Cooper’s Law states that our technology is advancing at such a rate that the number of different wireless communications possible in one location, at the same time will double every 30 months.  This “law” has held true since the first transmission by Guglielmo Marconi in 1895.  To illustrate, due to the method of transmitting this first signal, with a spark gap transmitter, it took up most of the radio spectrum to send this signal.  So the technology at that time more or less just allowed for one signal to be sent at any given time at a certain location.  Since then, every 30 months, the number of signals that can be transmitted at one time in one location has doubled.
  • In the United States, 86% of the time people are using the internet on their mobile device, they are simultaneously watching TV.  The average American smartphone user also spends about 2.7 hours per day socializing on their phone.
  • China: 906.8 million phones India: 851.7 million phones U.S. 302.9 million phones Russia 220.6 million phones Brazil: 217.3 million phones
  • Nathanael Nix on 14 Jan 14
     
    This is a very good informational website about Martin Cooper, with some pretty neat bonus facts.
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The Cellphone Turns 40: Remembering Martin Cooper's Historic Call - The Daily Beast - 1 views

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  • inspired by Captain Kirk’s gold flip-top ‘communicator’
  • Four decades ago today, Martin Cooper—
  • —made the first cellphone call. Sean Macaulay on what came next. Plus, from brick to Nokia, mobiles through history.
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  • April 3, in 1973, a man called Martin Cooper crossed Sixth Avenue clutching a telephonic gadget that would change history beyond all imagining.
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      Here is the video about some of the most iconic phone scenes in Hollywood and pop culture.
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      Its pretty good.
  • Cooper, who’s now 84 and still working in Silicon Valley, was a former Navy man and engineer
  • Nathanael Nix on 10 Jan 14
     
    Here is another really good website about the cellphone it even has a video at the end.
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  • 11:00 AM-12:00 Noon , Thirty years ago today a man stood on a New York City sidewalk and changed history. Martin Cooper, who worked for Motorola, invented the handheld cell phone. On April 3rd, 1973, he placed the first call to the competition.
  • I called my counterpart at Bell Laboratories, a guy named Dr. Joel Engell, who was running the cellular telephone program at Bell Laboratories, and I told him, `Joel, I'm calling you from a real cellular telephone, a handheld unit.' Now I thought I could hear gnashing of teeth at the other end, but Joel was polite. And then I went on to other phone calls.
  • Nathanael Nix on 17 Jan 14
     
    This is a pretty good website about Martin Cooper and the invention of the first cell phone, it has some pretty good information.
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How a Pop-Bottle Invention Resulted in the Cell Phone | Martin Cooper | Big Think - 0 views

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  • For 100 years, people who wanted to talk to other people were wired to their homes, they were latched – or chained to their desks and really didn’t have much in the way of freedom. That we were, in fact, giving people communications in their vehicles: even then, it’s not much better than being tied to your desk. You’re still trapped in your car. So we found out from people, like the Superintendent of Police in Chicago, who told us that he had a real problem. His officers had to be in communication, the only way they could talk was to be in their cars, and yet the people they were protecting were walking on the streets. He asked us, “How can I have my officers connected and still mingling with the people?” And we discovered this was true of people managing airports, people managing businesses, real estate people. So, we became aware of the fact that real communications is portable communications. Put the device on the person. 
  • I was four years old, lived in Winnipeg, Canada, where it’s very cold in the winter and very hot in the summer. And I look at these boys with a magnifying glass. And they were burning a piece of paper by focusing the rays of the sun onto this paper through a magnifying glass. And I just had to know how that worked. And so I did the obvious thing, I took a soda pop bottle and broke it and tried to make a magnifying glass out of it. And that’s when I realize now, that I had discovered that I was going to be an engineer because I want to know how everything works and I always have. 
  • When I was nine years old, I invented—at least I think I invented—a train that could travel through a tunnel from one end of the country to the other. And what was unique about this train was two things. I had learned about friction, and so we had to get rid of friction. And so I thought, why don’t we support this train on a magnetic field? Because I knew two magnets, when they are close together, force themselves apart. And the second thing is if we’re going to get rid of all friction, we have to get rid of the air. So, this train traveled in a tunnel that was totally evacuated. It was in a vacuum. And amazingly enough, they are just starting to build trains like that, maybe without the vacuum, but with magnetic levitation. So, maybe it wasn’t such a dumb idea after all. 
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  • Science has been a part of my life from the time I was four years old... just knowing how things work, having a curiosity. And my curiosity has been limitless and that’s quite a handicap because there are times in your life when you have to specialize. But I literally want to know everything and only in recent years have I finally realized that I’m never going to know everything. In fact, the older I get, and the more stupid I find out that I am. But science, the understanding of how things work, what things are, has been crucially important to me. So, I started out with fantasy; I’ve always loved science fiction. I’ve always known that I was going to be an engineer, so I went to a technical high school so that I could take every kind of shop and learn how to work with my hands, learned about materials, and I always knew that I was going to go to an engineering school and get an engineering degree. 
  • Science can be interesting. Science can be fun. If, in fact, teachers learn how to present science in that way and learn how to make people curious and make it enjoyable, I think more people will get involved. But it’s not important that everybody become a scientist. Everybody doesn’t have to be a mathematician. Make it interesting enough so the people that have that interest, that have that talent do latch onto the wonderful world that will open up if they dig into science and mathematics. The teaching of science, mathematics, of anything—there really is no difference from a game. If you make a game dull, if you make it uninteresting, if you don’t have something that grabs people... then they won’t get interested and they’ll go do something else. So, I don’t see why teaching should be any different than creating games. Creating a curriculum ought to be the same as creating a game. Make it interesting, make it fun, make it a challenge; all of those things. All of the attributes of playing a game are the things that draw people into learning and I think that’s what we ought to do. We ought to somehow coalesce the concept of teaching with the concept of game playing, and we’re going to find that a lot more of our youngsters are going to get interested in learning and specifically about science, mathematics, technology.
  • Nathanael Nix on 15 Jan 14
     
    This is a good website about Martin Cooper and the Cell Phone invention, it even has a pretty nifty video about him.
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      a very good website about martin cooper
  • Nathanael Nix on 24 Jan 14
     
    This is a pretty good website that shows some of the honors and awards that Martin Cooper has received.
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    Here is the picture to Martin Cooper and the first Cell Phone
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      This is a pretty good video, I recommend it.
  • 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.
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  • Dr Martin Cooper, a former general manager for the systems division at Motorola, is considered the inventor of the first portable handset and the first person to make a call on a portable cell phone in April 1973.
  • The first call he made was to his rival, Joel Engel, Bell Labs head of research.
  • Cooper, now 70, wanted people to be able to carry their phones with them anywhere.
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  • The First Cellphone (1973)Name: Motorola Dyna-TacSize: 9 x 5 x 1.75 inches Weight: 2.5 pounds Display: None Number of Circuit Boards: 30Talk time: 35 minutes Recharge Time: 10 hours Features: Talk, listen, dial
  • Who is he?Cooper grew up in Chicago and earned a degree in electrical engineering at the Illinois Institute of Technology. After four years in the navy serving on destroyers and a submarine, he worked for a year at a telecommunications company. Hired by Motorola in 1954, Mr. Cooper worked on developing portable products, including the first portable handheld police radios, made for the Chicago police department in 1967. He then led Motorola's cellular research.
  • Nathanael Nix on 14 Jan 14
     
    This is a very good informational website about who invented the cell phone, Martin Cooper. It gives a lot of good information about him.
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  • Nathanael Nix on 15 Jan 14
     
    This is a very good website about Martin Cooper and the phone invention and some of the awards he has received.
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  • Name: Motorola Dyna-Tac Size: 9 x 5 x 1.75 inches Weight: 2.5 pounds Display: None Number of Circuit Boards: 30 Talk time: 35 minutes Recharge Time: 10 hours Features: Talk, listen, dial
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  • Dr Martin Cooper, a former general manager for the systems division at Motorola, is considered the inventor of the first portable handset and the first person to make a call on a portable cell phone in April 1973. The first call he made was to his rival, Joel Engel, Bell Labs head of research.
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      That's pretty evil, don't you think?
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    This is a good website about the phone invention.
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  • Martin Cooper, invented the cell phone while working for Motorola.
  • Cooper was born in 1928, and from an early age he wanted to find a way to have people be able to travel with a mobile phone.
  • It was until the mid 1980’s that they found a way to make the phone smaller, more efficient, and more affordable for the public.
  • Nathanael Nix on 16 Jan 14
     
    This is a good informational website about the cell phone. Has some very good facts
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