How the First Cell Phone Call Changed the World!

The cell phone revolutionized how we communicate with each other,
but its origins are extremely different from the device you use to
talk, text and even surf the internet with on a daily basis. Its
roots could be traced back to the early 1970s when the head of
Motorola’s communications systems division, Martin Cooper was
tasked with developing a device that would make the up and coming
car phone obsolete technology. On April 3, 1973, Cooper made the
very first handheld cell phone call while standing on Sixth Avenue
outside the New York City Hilton in midtown Manhattan to engineer
Joel Engel, head of AT&T’s rival project. In a conversation
with Al Pisano, Dean of UC San Diego’s Jacobs School of
Engineering, Cooper reflects on the past fifty years including what
it took to develop the world’s first cellular telephone, the impact
it’s had on the world and the future of smartphone technology.
Series: "Computer Science Channel" [Science] [Show ID: 38819]