Martin Cooper has been a very influential man in the technology world. He is the inventor of the first cellphone. He has always loved engineering ever since he was a child. Constructing the first cellphone was a perfect way to fulfil that need of his engineering knack. The cellphone has made life quite a bit easier and definitely more interesting. You can now communicate with people worldwide with a cellphone. Martin Cooper’s life was nothing extravagant other than the fact of changing the world by creating the first cellphone. Martin Cooper was born on December 26, 1928 to his parents, Arthur and Mary Cooper. He has a younger brother named Will Cooper. He is a Capricorn. Martin was born in Chicago, but spent most of early years in Winnipeg, …show more content…
His first job was with the Teletype Corporation of Chicago, which made the units that provided remote communications services to media outlets. In 1954 he joined Motorola, Inc., of Schaumburg, Illinois. At first he worked on the first portable handheld police radios, introduced to Chicago in 1967. He then advanced to the operations director and n the nest 9 years made his most significant contribution to the future of mobile communications. November of 1972 was when cooper and his team began working on a portable phone, and ran their first tests in Washington. The phone was called “the shoe phone” because of its design. The phone weighed around two pounds, ten inches in length, three inches deep, and one and a half inches wide. The first cellphone wasn’t publicly demonstrated until April 3 1973, in New York City. After this he was made division manager at Motorola in 1977 and the vice president and cooperate director for research and development a year later. Martin left Motorola in 1983 to start his own company; Cellular Business Systems, Inc. Smaller more portable phones didn’t make any progress with consumers until the early 1990’s. Many people wouldn’t purchase these cellphones because they were so expensive. The cellphone is very useful today and would have been back when they weren’t around. They have some positive benefits as well as some negative benefits. Cellphones are very helpful when it comes to communication