Thirty years after the UK's first mobile phone call, on New Year's Day 1985, Harry Wallop talks to those who remember the moment. By Harry Wallop and Harrywallop 31 December 2014 • 3:00pm Michael ...
On 3 April 1973, Marty Cooper stood on a corner of Sixth Avenue in New York and took a phone book from his pocket. He then punched a number into a large, cream-coloured device and put it to his ear ...
Thirty years after the UK's first mobile phone call, the man who made it tells Harry Wallop: 'It never crossed my mind that it would not work' Michael Harrison in Parliament Square, recreating the ...
On the stroke of midnight on New Year's Day in 1985, 24-year-old trainee accountant Michael Harrison made history. Standing in London's Parliament Square while surrounded by raucous revellers, he ...
The first mobile telephone call was made by Martin Cooper on 3 April 1973 from a street in New York, in the US. Nicknamed 'the father of the cellphone', Martin made the first phone call to a rival ...
Twitter launched five years ago with the simple message "just setting up my twttr". In the same way, many technological breakthroughs that ultimately shaped the world began life, not with a fanfare of ...
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