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History of Mobile PhonesBy: Stephanie Cunningham

History of Mobile Phones

+How it all got started:

Development of mobile telephony began in 1918 with tests of wireless telephony on military trains between Berlin and Zossen.

In 1924 public trials of phone connection between trains began

In 1926 the artist Karl Arnold created a visionary cartoon about the use of mobile phones

In the 1940s mobile telephones for automobiles became svailable

The inauguration of mobile service was on June 17, 1946 in St. Louis, Missouri

During the 1960s people began the makings of mobile phones

Motorola was the first company to produce a handheld mobile phone

On April 3, 1973 the first mobile telephone call was made

+The First Mobile Phone

Was made by Martin Cooper

The phone weighed 2.5 pounds

It was 10 inches long, 5 inches deep, and 1.75 inches wide

This prototype aloud 30 minutes of talk time and took 10 hours to re-charge

+Inventors of the Mobile Phone

Martin Cooper

Richard W. Dronsuth

Albert J. Mikulski

Charles N. Lynk Jr

James J. Mikulski

John F. Mitchell

Roy A. Richardson

John H. Sangster

Martin Cooper holding first mobile phone.

+First Mobile Phone Call

Made on April 3, 1973

Was made from a Manhattan Street Corner- 6th Ave. between 53rd and 54th

Martin Cooper made the phone call to his rival, Joel Engel, from Bell Systems

Coopers exact words weren’t recorded the way Samuel Morse’s first telegraph message was, or Alexander Graham Bells first phone call, but it went something like this “I’m ringing you just to you just to see if my call sounds good on your end.”

As he was walking the streets, bystanders stared in aw that he was outside walking around while talking on a hand held phone

This was the start of something revolutionary

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He was born on December 26, 1928

Graduated from Illinois Institute of Technology in 1950

After graduating he enlisted in the U.S. Naval Reserves where he severed as a submarine officer during the Korean War

In 1957 he went on to earn his Masters degree from IIT in electrical engineering

He has 11 patents in the wireless communications industry

When working for Motorola Cooper conceived the first handheld mobile phone

He is considered the “Father of the Cell Phone”

He is the first person in history to make a handheld cellular phone call in public

About Martin Cooper