The Invention of Cell Phones 📱
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Morning Motorola!
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Holy brick!
That’s the world’s first cell phone.
Here it is to scale with an iPhone 15:
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But, how were cell phones invented?
So, 1900.
This dude Reginald Fesseden is the first guy to transmit the human voice through radio waves:
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Lol.
So this new radio-wave-voice-thing gave this Swedish dude, Lars Magnus Ericsson, an idea.
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Ya, but what’s your idea?
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So that’s what he did!
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Lars had invented the car phone: a status symbol for the wealthy.
But, this car phone had a glaring problem.
It was….attached to the car.
They were only mobile when you were driving.
So this guy at Motorola – Martin Cooper – starts working to unchain car phones from cars:
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That’s more or less what his team did.
And in 1973, they came up with the world’s first cell phone:
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That’s inventor Martin with his Motorola DynaTAC 8000X.
It comes in at:
- 10 inches tall
- 2.5lbs
- 35 minutes of talk time
- $3,995 (Over $10,000 today)
Thanks Martin <3
Stay Cute,
Henry & Dylan 🌈
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