NEW YORK CITY -- On April 3, 1973, Martin Cooper stood on a sidewalk on sixth avenue in Manhattan with a device the size of a brick and made the first public call from a cell phone to one of the men ...
Cell phones in airports, grocery stores, cars and restaurants are enough of a nuisance, but here is an example that really got to me. A large department store was having a great sale. The dressing ...
More than two years ago a Southeast Missouri State University student called 911 from her cell phone. She told dispatchers she had run her car off the road and was trapped inside. The caller had no ...
On Oct. 13, the world celebrated the 25th anniversary of the first commercial cell phone call from Soldier Field in Chicago to somewhere in Germany. That was 1983, just after I had finished graduate ...
On April 3, 1973 Martin Cooper of Motorola made the first ever call on the first ever truly portable telephone. But it wasn't until ten years later, in 1983, that Motorola sold its cellular phones ...