Del Mar resident Marty Cooper, inventor of the cell phone, received the National Medal of Technology and Innovation during a ...
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In 1959, Martin Cooper's job as an engineer at Motorola led him to AT&T's Bell Labs on a research project. The goal was to ...
But then, in 1973, Motorola engineer Martin Cooper showed what the future would look like: the DynaTAC 8000X. Based on Bell's cell network concept, it was the world's first handheld cell phone.