On April 3, 1973, Martin Cooper made the first ever cellphone call on the streets of New York. His invention, a brick-sized device, became the first cellphone available to the general public.
MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST:
Martin Cooper remembers exactly where he was standing when he made the first ever call from a cellphone on this day 50 years ago.
MARTIN COOPER: I was on the streets of New York, 6th Avenue, right next to the Hilton Hotel.
KELLY: At the time, Cooper was head of the communications division at Motorola, and he was there to demonstrate his company’s latest invention.
COOPER: New
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