The Origin Of The Cell Phone

Fifteen years ago seeing a cellular phone was quiteCooper, became who is thought to be the inventor of
rare, and in today's technologically advanced world, justthe first portable handset. Dr. Cooper was also the first
about everyone has a cellular phone. Adults, teenagers,person to make a call using a portable cell phone.
and even children carry around portable models of theIn New York, he set up a base station with the first
telephone.working prototype of a cell phone, the Motorola
Through the interesting history of the cellular phone,Dyna-Tac. He and Motorola took this technology to
one can get the picture of how the portable wonderNew York to show the public.
became what it is today.Later on, in 1977, the cell phone went public and public
In 1843, a skilled, analytical chemist named Michaeltesting began. Chicago was the home for the first trials
Farady began exhaustive research to find a spacewith 2,000 people. After Chicago, there were later trials
that could conduct electricity. He told of his findings, andin Washington, D.C. and Baltimore, and then it spread to
these advances of 19th century science andJapan in 1979.
technology have had an incalculable effect on theUsual technologies changed in 1988 when the CTIA -
development of today's cellular phone.Cellular Technology Industry Association - was formed
By the year of 1865 a dentist by the name of Dr.to lay out realistic goals for cell phone providers.
Mahlon Loomis became what is thought to be the firstResearch for new applications of development was
person who was able to communicate wirelesslyincluded.
through the atmosphere. Between 1866 and 1873In 1991 the Telecommunications Industry Association
transmitted telegraphic messages 18 miles betweenset a new standard with the creation of the TDMA
the tops of the Cohocton and Beorse Deer MountainsInterim Standard 54.
in Virginia.Cell phones have had quite a long journey. Although
Dr. Mahlon Loomis developed a way of transmittingthere was a great demand for cell phones, it took 37
and receiving messages by using Earth's atmosphereyears for them to become commercially available in
as a conductor. He also launched kites enclosed withthe United States.
copper screens that were linked to the ground withWireless service was actually invented almost 50
copper wires. He was awarded a $50,000 researchyears ago, so it's hard to believe that cell phones have
grant from Congress to continue his studies.only become popular over the past couple of decades.
Then, in the year of 1973, a former general managerCurrently, there are more than 60 million people who
from the systems division of Motorola, Dr. Martinown cell phones.