The Communicators: Martin Cooper

[Jer0meLey]

ummmmmmmm... i understand it to an extent but they used pretty big words, i'm just 13, leave me alone :(

[BabiioFloraa31]

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[fazzinaw11]

Like if you watched the whole thing

[InsideKearnyCastle]

FYI--The very first Inventor of the "Wireless Pocket Telephone" was Charles E. Alden--in 1906!!! It was reported in the April 29, 1906 edition of THE NEW YORK WORLD; you can read the article on my youtube page. Alden didn't have any financial backing and couldn't improve his remarkable invention.

[ajamoles]

great interview for dr martin cooper

[proudeuropeanguy]

An Afro-centrist told me that Henry Sampson invented the cell phone. LOL.

Sampson and co-inventor George Miley received a patent on a "gamma electric cell" that converted a gamma ray input into an electrical output. (Among the first to do that was Bernhard Gross, US patent #3122640, 1964)

What, you ask, does gamma radiation have to do with cellular communications technology?

The answer: nothing. Some pseudo-historian must have seen the words "electric" and "cell" and thought "cell phone".

[SupaFlyJitsu]

GOD BLESS YOU SIR!!! *Martin Cooper :D*

[thyagarajesh]

My thoughts while listening to Martin

1. Too only 3 months to develop 1st version of working cell phone system.

2. Few engineers can explain complex things to common people.

3. He is always (age does not matter) rebellious, humble, analytical, curious..

4. Ability to measuring spectrum efficiency of broadcaster & careers - opportunity for innovation.

5. 30:08 He gave up his iPhone to grand-son (may be he found it is too restricted) using an Andoid - OS interested him and had good results.

[nofreedomofspeech]

In 1956, the first fully automatic mobile phone system, called MTA (Mobile Telephone system A), was developed by Ericsson and commercially released in Sweden. This was the first system that did not require any kind of manual control in base stations, but had the disadvantage of a phone weight of 40 kg (90 lb). MTB, an upgraded version with transistors, weighing 9 kg (20 lb), was introduced in 1965 and used DTMF signaling.... So Dr. Martin Coopers phone from 1973 was NOT the first one.

[Martycell]

@nofreedomofspeech You are quite correct. My contribution was the first PORTABLE handheld Cell Phone.

Martin Cooper

[iLeavePennies]

At&t wanted to be a monopoly? Haha, who woulda guessed... uhh

[QUIX4U]

I've just tossed a few "visual surround"audio video educators i here - to show that the electromagnetic spectral "range" is infinite & has always been accessable - to those whom can "actually discover - how to "utilise the entire spectral "entity" - whilst still performing the function desired - cellphones just use aninfinitely small "piece" on the galaxy of infinity that exists - just the same as Ur computor relies on ONE tinie weanie aspect to power the electric transformer - to give IT POWER.

[QUIX4U]

See.? Thus - a totally diferent usage - yet an exactly the same one - as that one (that since 1965) I have always used - for mega_multiple (& the possibility exists to get up to 64.77 million) chs worth of "analogue" 3D-TRIPELLO surround sound. I mostly utilise the easiest to get NINE (& a summation "central" tenth) ... as my 10ch Visual Audio "demonstration" Video - instantly proves.

[nypj]

i think he means that the inventor of the "wire line phone" was elisha gray

[GeneralClassHam]

@nypj Alexander Graham Bell gets the credit for the phone because he filed his patent before Gray did. It was verified in a lawsuit Bell placed against Western Union and Gray and Bell won the case.

[nypj]

@GeneralClassHam losing the lawsuit over his patent that was only accepted 2 hours prior to grays patent (and supposedly bells patent would not work as written) still does not negate the fact that gray invented the phone prior to bell... just as claiming columbus discovered america does not negate the fact that he did not, nor could not discover something that was 1- already inhabited by other people and 2- it was already "discovered" by many explorers prior to his "discovery"

[babykhan08]

great man

[SounzNice]

I doubt "he" invented it all by himself. A cell phone is just one part. Did he invent communication satellites too?

[peterpeachfuzz]

Cell phones do not use satellites. And if you are talking about the trunk lines those use fiber across the oceans now instead of satellites.

[spiritualism8]

こっちもすごいです

[6oViceTo9]

great man

[armenikendski12]

Thank you Nikola Tesla !!!

[derekddevine]

The man is brilliant.

[PowerTorsk]

I could imagine this guy being my grandfather x) ..at least if I were in a Disney movie!

[rkingsboro]

LINUX, F*CK YEAH!

Er, sorry, I get a little carried away when I catch a whiff of an open-source global takeover.

[chemjb]

very brilliant individual!

[dailymobile]

this guy is a legend!

[Adet83]

motorola milestone (droid) best phone ever!!!

[nestrapez]

Superb Indeed!

[ecaep86]

Martin Cooper is a EE GOD! this man changed the world. THE SPECTRUM IS OURS NOT THE FCC's

[darkerego]

he changed the world!

[JohnMarshaAJ]

Most respect to you, Mr. Cooper. I am a ham operator, your vision is unparalleled. It is quite clear that Mr. Cooper, despite his years, is at the forefront of the radio industry. And Moto deserves a place in history, as these Chinese companies seem to be taking the spotlight for what Moto paved the path for.

[stylesinfinite]

@JohnMarshaAJ

There are no chinese companies making cell phones, you mean japanese and korean?

[wdansey]

@stylesinfinite - What about HTC?

[JohnMarshaAJ]

Seriously? Have you ever heard of little company named HTC? How about all the imitation KIRF's out on the worldwide market? Yes, the Japanese and Korean, along with a little company outside of Helsinki, you might of heard of them, Nokia, the world leader in cell phones.

[andrewwk6]

this guy is a real inventor. thank you!

[genestarwindjf80]

Martin Cooper without you sir THEIR BE NO CELL PHONES WHAT WE HAVE TODAY. And I remember seeing your phone on SAVE BY THE BELL, ZACH MORRIS PHONE thanks man.

[AMKfoo]

His reputation is expanding faster than the universe

The Most Interesting Man In the World ~Martin Cooper

[Samurai1107]

The inventor of the phone uses a Droid! ;)

[easedropmusic]

Yeah, but he tweeted this:

"I love my MOT Android but wish it had some features of the iPhone screen. I will revisit iPhone and reportafter working Droid for a month."

[DemiSouls]

So old yet so wise. Hats off to you Martin Cooper!

[duy817]

wow.. the inventor of the cellphone.. that's quite a title!

[majdijr]

Martin Cooper, humanity is so proud of a genius like you

[lymcky]

this is a great interview... sometimes rewriting the history of communications makes it sound sci-fi & not a developing science...