8th Grade Inventor Research 2014

Russell was born in Bremerton, Washington in 1931. At age six, he invented a remote-control battleship, with a storage chamber for his lunch. Russell went on to earn a BA in Physics from Reed College in Portland in 1953.

By 1985, Russell had earned 26 patents for CD-ROM technology. He then founded his own consulting firm, where he has continued to create and patent improvements in optical storage systems, along with bar code scanners, liquid crystal shutters, and other industrial optical instruments. His most revolutionary recent invention is a high-speed optical data recorder / player that has no moving parts. Russell earned another 11 patents for this "Optical Random Access Memory" device, which is currently being refined for the market.

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).

1931 in Bremerton, Washington, USA

He was among the first to use a color TV screen and keyboard as the sole interface between computer and operator; and he designed and built the first electron beam welder.

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.

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

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.

Cooper, now 70, wanted people to be able to carry their phones with them anywhere.

In 1974, a scientist at 3M research laboratories called Stephen Silver was trying to find a new strong adhesive; instead he discovered an adhesive that was not too strong. This new adhesive would stick on all surfaces but could be removed easily without leaving any residue or damage to the surface. Silver had no idea what use he could make of this adhesive.

Four years later Art Fry, a colleague of Stephen Silverÿfds came up with the idea to use his ÿfdlow tackÿfd adhesive to stick his bookmark in his hymnal. He then further developed his idea and in 1977, 3M launched Post-it notes nationwide. For some reason the product did not do well as consumers had never tried the product.

Everybody uses a Post-it note today to write down something you might forget. You can use Post-its to remind somebody about something or even to remind yourself, as peopleÿfdÿfd generally tend to forget important tasks. In order to remember these tasks, they write what needs to be done on a Post-it and stick it onto a wall or something which they use or see very often. You can stick one in your notebooks for reference later.