Dr. Martin Cooper
Cell Phones were first invented in the early sixties but were too expensive for the public use until a man named Martin Cooper; a former manager at Motorola invented the first portable handset and made the first call to New York on the handset in April 1973. This cell phone was ten inches long and two and a half pounds There were no digital cameras, no personal computers, and certainly no Internet on this phone but people who saw him that day making his first call couldn't help but stare at the new device. Little did they know that soon there would be six billion cellphone owners. You may be wondering who it was that he called on that special day, well it was his rival at another phone company. He had called Joel Engel to tell him the race to the perfect cellular tech was over and he had won. Although he had invented it in the seventy's it wasn't mass produced until the early eighty's when the FCC approved his gadget. Cooper, the father of cell phones, is a co-founder of numerous communication companies' with his wife Arlene Harris who is known as the first wireless wife. He is also general manager of Motorola's Communications Systems Division. Now eighty years old Martin can look back at what he started and see what a big impact he has made for not just America but all around the world. With many accomplishments and high positions many people don't know that he is the man who changed the way people communicate drastically.