E234: Martin "Marty" Cooper - The Father of the Cell Phone

Back2Basics: Reconnecting to the essence of YOU

English - December 11, 2023 22:45 - 32 minutes - 29.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 46 ratings
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Martin Cooper is an engineer, an entrepreneur, and a futurist. Known as the “father of the cell phone,” he invented the world’s first portable cell phone at Motorola and made the first public call in 1973. Over thirty years at Motorola, Cooper and his teams introduced the first nationwide mobile phones and pagers, and numerous other products. He and his wife, Arlene Harris founded over a half dozen companies.

He is chairman of Dyna LLC, serves on the FCC’s Technological Advisory Council and is a member of the National Academy of Engineers, the Marconi Society, and is a Prince of Asturias Laureate. He has been widely published, and created the Law of Spectrum Capacity, known as Cooper’s Law.

Cooper grew up in Chicago and attended the Illinois Institute of Technology.

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