Microchip: An Idea, Its Genesis, and the Revolution It Created
by Jeffrey Zygmont · 15 Mar 2003
, Illinois, in 1994. page 156 In two-way radios, the communication division ... (including interactions with the semiconductor makers described in the following two paragraphs); Martin Cooper, interviewed by telephone on September 21, 2001. page 157 Linder's work with ICs ...; the full discussion on the function of a frequency synthesizer and tuning crystals
The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone
by Brian Merchant · 19 Jun 2017 · 416pp · 129,308 words
their chauffeurs, allowing them to coordinate with their personal drivers, and for business. By 1973, the networks were broad and technology advanced enough that Motorola’s Martin Cooper was able to debut the first prototype mobile phone handset, famously making a public call on the toaster-size plastic cell. But the only commercially
The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation
by Jon Gertner · 15 Mar 2012 · 550pp · 154,725 words
foil decoys. 14 Within a few years, Motorola would propose a competing system and would develop the first portable, handheld cell phone. The Motorola handset, developed by Martin Cooper, is a good example of how technological leaps are often perceived reductively. The handset invention demonstrated that cellular receivers could be portable and handheld
Cybersecurity: What Everyone Needs to Know
by P. W. Singer and Allan Friedman · 3 Jan 2014 · 587pp · 117,894 words
been called the “mobile revolution.” From one perspective, telecommunications going mobile is not that new a trend. The process arguably began in 1973, when Motorola engineer Martin Cooper stood on a New York City street and called his rival at Bell Labs to crow about beating him to the invention of a mobile
Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
by Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths · 4 Apr 2016 · 523pp · 143,139 words
here; I want to see you”—a simultaneous testament to its ability and inability to overcome physical distance. The cell phone began with a boast—Motorola’s Martin Cooper walking down Sixth Avenue on April 3, 1973, as Manhattan pedestrians gawked, calling his rival Joel Engel at AT&T: “Joel, I’m calling
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. NETWORKING “connection has a wide variety of meanings”: Cerf and Kahn, “A Protocol for Packet Network Intercommunication.” “Only connect”: Forster, Howards End. “handheld, portable, real cellular phone”: Martin Cooper, “Inventor of Cell Phone: We Knew Someday Everybody Would Have One,” interview with Tas Anjarwalla, CNN, July 9, 2010. The message was “login”—or would
Digital Disconnect: How Capitalism Is Turning the Internet Against Democracy
by Robert W. McChesney · 5 Mar 2013 · 476pp · 125,219 words
: Berrett-Koehler, 2006), 127. 100. See Brian Chen, “Carriers Warn of Crisis in Mobile Spectrum,” New York Times, Apr. 17, 2012. Chen quotes cell phone inventor Martin Cooper, who dismisses the claim as unfounded. 101. MacKinnon, Consent of the Networked, 120. 102. Bruce Upbin, “Complacent Telcos Deliver Americans Third Rate Service at High