The inventor of the first mobile phones

Martin Cooper inventor of the cell phone itself does not imagine that could be as small as a mobile phone now so it can be taken anywhere in accordance with the needs and demands in today's wireless age. Martin Marty Cooper (born December 26, 1928 in Chicago, Illinois, USA) who was the leader of a team of Motorola engineers who developed the handheld mobile devices is different from a car phone (Car Phone). Cooper is the CEO and founder of ArrayComm, a company that works in Smart Antenna technology research and developing wireless networks, and is the director of Research and Development of Motorola.


Early

Martin Cooper grew up in Chicago during the world recession. His parents were Ukrainian immigrants. He received a bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering in 1950.

Career

Martin Cooper joined the Reserve Officers Training Corps United States Navy. He served in the U.S. Navy destroyer during the Korean War and then on a submarine based in Hawaii.

After the war, Cooper left the Navy and began working at Teletype, a subsidiary of Western Electric. In 1954, he moved to Motorola. While working there he continued his studies at night. In 1957, he received his Master's Degree in electronics engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology.

In 1960 he was instrumental in changing the sheets that were previously limited to information technology is used in a single building is becoming increasingly widespread that connects between cities. Cooper helped fix the defects in crystals Motorola made for radio. This encourages companies to mass produce the first quartz crystal to be used in quartz watches.

In 1960, John F. Mitchell became chief project engineer for Motorola portable communications. In the early 1970s, Mitchell Cooper giving responsibility to the mobile phone division (Carphone). Mitchell and Cooper envisioned a communications product, not only in the car. So that the device should be small and light enough to be portable. It took 90 days in 1972 to create the first prototype of the idea.

Cooper and the engineers who worked for him, and Mitchell patented invention "Radio Telephone System" filed on October 17, 1973 with patent number 3,906,166 and was approved in September 1975 on their behalf. Cooper is considered the inventor of the first mobile phones (cell phones) and the first The first call to the cellular phone prototype handheld on 3 April 1973. historic event was witnessed in public in front of journalists and passers-by on the streets of New York. addressed to Dr. Call first. Joel S. Engel, head of research at Bell Labs.

The first sentence is pronounced "Joel, I'm calling you from a 'real' cellular telephone. A portable handheld telephone."

The first call as early marker of the beginning of a fundamental shift in the technology and communications market towards a portable telephone communication where one can directly communicate with others directly, no longer as of yore where the destination is a place, as the phonehouse. This is the result of the work of his vision for personal wireless handheld telephone communication that sets it apart from the car phone (Car Phones). Cooper later revealed that he got the idea to develop cell phone after watching Captain Kirk using a communicator tool at the Star Trek television series.

Although dubbed as 'Father Cellular Phones (Mobile)', with humility Martin Cooper said: "Even though I'm part of the invention, but the work is the work of teams and hundreds of literary people who create a vision of how mobile as today, which of course not perfect. We are still working and trying to make it better ".


Product Commercialization

The first Motorola DynaTAC handset, has a weight of 1 kg (2.2 lb) and 35 minutes of talk time. In 1983, after a four iterations, Cooper's team had reduced the handsets weight by half. Product price is around $ 4,000 (or equivalent in value to $ 8,600 in 2009). Cooper Leaving Motorola before they started selling cell phones to consumers.

Cellular Business Systems

Martin Cooper started a company with partners who provide billing system provider. In 1986, they sold the Cincinnati Bell for $ 23m.

ArrayComm

In 1992, Martin Cooper joined Richard Roy, a researcher at Stanford University, to form ArrayComm. The company began to specialize in the creation of a more efficient mobile communications. While leading this company, Cooper created the Legal Cooper (Cooper's Law). This law states that every 30 months the amount of information transmitted by a certain amount over the radio spectrum doubled. He said that this law has been in force since 1897, when Marconi first patented the wireless telegraph.

Awards and Affiliations

In 1995, Martin Cooper received the Wharton Infosys Business Transformation Award for his technological innovations in the field of communication. Cooper is also a member of Mensa International. In 2000 Martin Cooper including Top Ten Entrepreneurs in Red Herring magazine. In 2009, he along with Raymond Tomlinson was awarded the Prince of Asturias, a tribute to the scientific and technical research.

"Wireless is freedom. It's about being unleashed from the telephone cord and having the ability to be virtually anywhere when you want to be. That freedom is what cellular is all about. It pleases me no end to have had some small impact on people's lives Because these phones do make people's lives better. They promote productivity, they make people more comfortable, they the make them feel safe and all of those things. In the sense I had a small contribution there makes me feel very good "(Martin Marty Cooper)