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 men he’d been ...

“As you could tell, I was not averse to rubbing it in.” 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 ...

On April 3, 1973, a man named Martin Cooper was walking through the streets of Manhattan carrying something no one had ever seen before: a cell phone. As he strolled, he made a call, and he made ...