The History Behind the Invention of the First Cell Phone

While cell phones are a fairly modern invention--if you consider 1973 ‘modern’--the idea of a telephone that could travel with you is as old as the telephone itself. For decades though, the best anyone could offer were bulky two-way radio devices that were essentially walkie-talkies that filled the trunk of your car, but a couple of key engineering developments and a classic American business rivalry would help lay the foundation for the device that revolutionized the way people communicate

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