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Martin Cooper

"Martin Cooper - History of Cell Phone and Martin Cooper." //Inventors//. Newstream/Arraycomm. Web. 07 Oct. 2011. .
 * 1) first cell phone call was in April of 1973.
 * 2) was a rival with AT&T.
 * 3) first phone was 30 ounces
 * 4) took 10 years to design a newer phone for the market
 * 5) he worked with motorola
 * 6) first phone that could be bought was 16 ounces
 * 7) This phone was called the DynaTAC.
 * 8) Was released in 1983.
 * 9) it was sold for about $3,500.
 * 10) Coopers research led to the development of the company "ArrayComm"
 * 11) This company helped lower the price of a cell phone
 * 12) Cooper himself admitted that the cell phone was less reliable and affordable as normal house phones.
 * 13) They later created the i-BURST Personal Broadband System
 * 14) This delivers high-speed, mobile Internet access that people can afford.
 * 15) Cooper said "It's very exciting to be part of a movement toward making broadband available to people with the same freedom to be anywhere that they have for voice communications today,"
 * 16) Phones have gone from 30 ounces to 3 ounces
 * 17) Cooper is now the chairman, CEO and co-foudner of ArrayComm
 * 18) he made the first cell phone call while general manager of Motorola's Communications Systems Division.
 * 19) Internet era started in 2003
 * 20) This is 30 years after the first cell phone

"First Cell Phone a True 'brick' - Technology & Science - Wireless - Msnbc.com." //Msnbc.com - Breaking News, Science and Tech News, World News, US News, Local News- Msnbc.com//. MSN.com, 4 Nov. 2005. Web. 07 Oct. 2011. .


 * 1) first phone had 30 minutes of talk time
 * 2) took 10 hours to recharge
 * 3) sold for nearly $4,000
 * 4) Phone was officially called Motorola DynaTAC 8000X
 * 5) Rudy Krolopp was the lead designer of this phone
 * 6) Cooper ran Motorola's research and development effort in wireless
 * 7) He was named the father of the cell phone by then-CEO Robert Galvin.
 * 8) John Mitchell was the former head of the company's communications division.
 * 9) in December 1972, (only months before the cell phone was made), they didn't even know what a portable cell phone was
 * 10) Krolopp had only 6 weeks to make a working model.
 * 11) AT&T was also thinking about making a cell phone (Motorola's rivals)
 * 12) The Federal Communications Commission was trying to decide to give wireless to AT&T as well
 * 13) and Motorola didn't want this or they may have been shut out.
 * 14) They only had 8 guys help and try to build the phone
 * 15) development of the phone cost $100 million.
 * 16) They said they had the capability to design a new, small phone, but not the capability to build one.
 * 17) The original phone weighed over 2 pounds
 * 18) Mitchell's, Cooper's, and Krolopp's names were all on the original patent
 * 19) The engineers who designed the phone had faith and didn't shut down the idea.
 * 20) The phone released 10 years after it was made because of the delay resulting mostly from the need to build towers and infrastructure

Leard, George. "Biography: Martin Cooper - by George Leard - Helium." //Helium - Where Knowledge Rules//. 12 Nov. 2008. Web. 07 Oct. 2011. .
 * 1) He was born in Chicago, Illinois
 * 2) His birthday is December 26, 1928.
 * 3) Cooper earned his Bachelors and Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technologyin 1950 and 1957 respectively.
 * 4) He served in the Navy for 4 years
 * 5) He also worked for a short time with another telecommunications company
 * 6) In the early years at Motorola, he worked on portable products, including hand radios.
 * 7) He made these for the Chicago Police Department in 1967.
 * 8) Shortly after this project, he began working on Motorola's Cellular Research project.
 * 9) The first prototype was 3 pounds
 * 10) To get his work discovered, he went to New York to promote it
 * 11) He made his first call on the way to a press conference
 * 12) He called his rival Dr. Joe Engel, the Research Director at AT&T Bell's Lab
 * 13) he did this on April 13, 1973
 * 14) This cell phone led to ArrayCom
 * 15) ArrayCom is a company that uses core adaptive antenna technology
 * 16) Cooper then worked on the I-Burst personal Broadband system to deliver high speed to the internet
 * 17) It took 17 years, from the initial phone call by Dr. Martin Cooper in 1973, for the mobile communicationconcept to be fully developed and marketed to the world.
 * 18) Cooper was awarded the Wharton Infosys Business Award in 1995
 * 19) He got it for his technological innovations in the communications field
 * 20) Martin Cooper was able to tap into people's need to freely talk to each other with his invention

Keith, Robert D. "Cell Phone Timeline." //The Interactive Media Lab at the University of Florida//. 2004. Web. 10 Oct. 2011. .


 * 1) THe idea was based off using a radio
 * 2) in 1945, the first mobile radio telephone service is established
 * 3) this was in St. Louis Missouri
 * 4) Approved by FCC, but radio barely works
 * 5) in 1947, AT&T came out with he first radio car phone
 * 6) It could only be used from new york to Boston
 * 7) in 1970, cell phone lobbyists win against the FCC because they know that that industry is quickly approaching
 * 8) AT&T actually proposed modern day cell phone first to FCC.
 * 9) But Martin Copper was the first one to actually make one in 1973.
 * 10) FCC actually started to encourage cell phones the next year.
 * 11) Western Electric outs a law suit to the FCC
 * 12) They were the closest company to making one
 * 13) in 1977, cell phone testing is permitted by the FCC in Chicago
 * 14) The Bell Telephone Company gets in a partnership with AT&T
 * 15) In 1981 The FCC made firm rules about the growing cell phone industry in dealing with manufactures.
 * 16) The Cellular Technology Industry Association was made in 1988.
 * 17) TDMA Phone technology became available to public in 1991
 * 18) in 2001 BellSouth announced that it is leaving the pay phone business because there is too much competition from cell phones.
 * 19) In 1843, Micheal Faraday a talented chemist begins researching the possibility that space can conduct electricity.
 * 20) in 1921, The Police Department in Detroit begins installing mobile radios

Zack Lazo Thesis Statement

Martin Cooper, no doubt has changed the way this world works. With his invention of cell phones, the world has changed tremendously. more than 5 billion people currently have them now with several carriers. This one invention has changed how people live their lives.

outline: 1. About Martin Cooper a. early life b. starting his job

2. His cell phone a. info about his first cellular phone b. how he did it

3. His impact on our world a. Carriers making constant cell phones b. Billions of people having some sort of cell phone c. changes of cell phones over time