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Martin Cooper - 3 views

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    This is a pretty good website that shows some of the honors and awards that Martin Cooper has received.
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Arlene Harris and Martin Cooper - 1 views

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    Helpful website LOOK AT!!!!
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    This is a good website that has good cell phone facts
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Profile: Thirtieth anniversary of first handheld cellular phone call [DP]: Kids Search ... - 1 views

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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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Father Of The Cellphone 'Unleashed' World's Callers From Copper Wires: Kids Search - po... - 0 views

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  • For years, my colleagues and I at Motorola had a dream. And that dream was that everyone someday would be free to talk wherever they were, would be unleashed from the copper wires that tied them to the network. And then the FCC, the Federal Communications Commission, announced that they were about to make a decision.
  • We call that first phone the brick.
  • The battery life was only 20 minutes, but that was not a problem because you couldn't hold that heavy things up for more than 20 minutes.
  • Nathanael Nix on 17 Jan 14
     
    This is a pretty decent website that has some good information on it.
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Martin Cooper (American engineer) -- Encyclopedia Britannica - 0 views

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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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10 Fun Phone Facts You NEVER Knew! - XBLUE Networks - Office Phone Systems Made Simple - 0 views

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    This is a good website about some cell phone facts that probably most of you don't even know, it has really good information.
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How We Invented the World: First Handheld Cell Phone : Video : Discovery Channel - 0 views

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    This is a good informational video about the first cell phone, it is really amazing.
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Mobile phones: 40 years of handsets in pictures | Technology | theguardian.com - 0 views

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    This is a good website that has a slideshow from the very first cell phone, up to the most recent cell phone.
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Phones facts - 0 views

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  • In 2005 more than 100 million cell phones were discarded in the United States, equalling over 50,000 tons of still-usable equipment
  • Less than 1 percent of the millions of cell phones retired and discarded annually are recycled
  • Over 3 billion people globally own mobiles: if each of them returned one phone for recycling, over 240,000 tons of raw materials could be saved. The carbon emissions saved from this would be the equivalent to taking 4 million cars off the road
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  • To make one phone, over 2kgs of raw materials are required, including petroleum-based plastics, liquid crystal display materials, brominated flame retardants (BFRs), and toxic heavy metals including cadmium, lead, nickel, mercury, manganese, lithium, zinc, arsenic, antimony, beryllium and copper.  If not properly recycled, toxins from these materials can seep from mobile devices into the environment when discarded in landfill, where they can accumulate in the food chain and cause damage to plants, animals and humans
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    This is a good informational sight about phone facts.
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Who Invented The Cell Phone? - 0 views

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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.
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    This is a good informational website about the cell phone. Has some very good facts
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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)
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    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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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.
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    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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Invention & Adoption | The History of the Mobile Phone - 0 views

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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.
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    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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Inventor Of Cell Phone: 'We Are Just Getting Started' | Here & Now - 0 views

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  • Forty years ago this month, Motorola engineer Martin Cooper changed the world by making the world’s first cell phone call. He stood on a New York City street on April 3, 1973, with a 10-inch-long, 2.5-pound phone nicknamed “the brick” and called his engineering nemesis at the much bigger Bell Labs.
  • Cooper’s latest product, which he created with his wife Arlene Harris, is an ultra-simple phone for seniors called the Jitterbug. “I hate the concept of trying to build a universal device that does all things for all people, because then it doesn’t do any of them very well,” Cooper said. “I think what is going to happen in the future is more customization, more personalization. We all are different and we ought to be able to customize and have a phone that does exactly what we want it to do – that is so easy to use that we don’t even have to think about it. That’s what the dream is.”
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    This is a pretty good informational site about the cell phone, and even one of his other inventions, the Jitterbug, a cell phone for elderly people.
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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.
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    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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    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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  • 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 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.
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    This is a pretty good biography about Martin Cooper, It has some pretty good information in it.
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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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