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Dr Martin Cooper, born on 26 December 1928 in Chicago. is considered the inventor of the cell phone. He was the team leader in Motorola who developed it in 1973. He graduated from MIT in Electrical Engineering. In 1954 he was hired by the Motorola Company, the first company to make mobile phones.

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Martin Cooper is famous because he invented the first mobile phone, this as a massive leap in technolergy as the consent of being able to call your loved once when not being at home or using a telephone box was bazaar and because of Martin Cooper inventing the mobile phone other things for example compatriot computers and other forms of transportation followed and got improved.

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After World War II, Cooper left the navy and began working at Teletype, a subsidiary of Western Electric. In 1950, he received a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT). In 1954, he was hired by Motorola, and attended classes and studied at night. He went on to earn a master's degree in electrical engineering from IIT in 1957 , and taught night school classes at the university.

In 1960, John F. Mitchell, who also received a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering (1950) from IIT, became chief engineer of Motorola's mobile communications projects. Cooper reported to Mitchell. In the 1960s, Cooper was instrumental in turning pagers from a technology used in single buildings to one that stretched across cities. Cooper helped fix a flaw in the quartz crystalsMotorola made for its radios. This encouraged the company to mass-produce the first crystals for use in wrist watches. Cooper worked on developing portable products, including the first portable handheld police radios, made for the Chicago police department in 1967.

In the early 1970s, Mitchell put Cooper in charge of its car phone division where he led Motorola's cellular research. Cooper envisioned mobile phones that would be used not only in a car, but also small and light enough to be portable. Thanks to years of research and development in portable products directed by Cooper and new technologies from all over the company, when the pressure was on, it took only 90 days in 1973 to create the first portable cellular 800 MHz phone prototype.

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