Martin Cooper knew he had something special in his hands when he invited reporters to watch him make the first cell phone call on April 3, 1973, in New York City. "This is a time when there were ...

Who is he? Martin Cooper — aka the father of the cellphone, and former head of Motorola's communications systems division — and the first person to ever make a call from a cellphone.

On April 3, 1973, a man named Martin Cooper ... make a call while he was walking instead of calling from a conference room, which could be done using a cabled telephone. He decided that the first ...

The first mobile ... Motorola employee Martin Cooper stood on Sixth Avenue in New York City, and did something no one had ever done before — he made a mobile phone call. To make the call ...

This was the first cell phone call ever made. It was a call that would revolutionize communications and change life as we know it. Martin Cooper makes a historic call ... to do something as ...

Martin Cooper remembers exactly where he was standing when he made the first ever call from a cellphone on this day 50 years ago. MARTIN COOPER: I was on the streets of New York, 6th Avenue ...

NEW YORK CITY -- On April 3, 1973, Martin Cooper stood on a sidewalk on sixth avenue in Manhattan with a device the size of a brick and made the first public call from a cell phone to one of the ...

On April 3, 1973, Martin Cooper stood on a sidewalk on Sixth Avenue in Manhattan with a device the size of a brick and made the first public call from ... technology is to make peoples’ lives ...