American engineer and pioneer Martin Cooper joins Lisa Dent to discuss how 50 years ago this week he made history by making the very first cell phone call. During their conversation, Martin recounts ...

It’s almost 50 years since a Motorola engineer dialled the first handheld mobile phone and made a call. The call went down in history. That very first call was made 46 years ago, and the beige ...

The cell phone made its public debut 40 ... The New York Times Magazine takes us back to the very day in 1973 that inventor Martin Cooper first showed off his portable Motorola telephone.

Those first mobile phones were not cheap at around $5,000 per handset Engineer Martin Cooper holds a contemporary copy of the original cell phone he used to make the first cell phone call on April ...

The first mobile call was made on this date 46 years ago: April 3, 1973. Martin Cooper, a Motorola employee, made the call on Sixth Avenue in NYC. He called a friend who worked for AT&T at the time.

The problem with mobile phones is that people look at them ... Motorola engineer Martin Cooper made the very first cellphone call. That day, Cooper told ABC7 New York, he called department head ...

Martin Cooper, an American engineer dubbed the “father of the cell phone”, says the neat little device we all have in our pockets has almost boundless potential and could one day even help ...