Cell Phones Turn 40 Today
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Martin Cooper, one of the inventors of the early cell phone, invited reporters to watch him make the first phone call on April 3, 1973 in New York, CBS reported.
In an interview with “60 Minutes” correspondent Morley Safer, Cooper said, "This is a time when there were no cordless phones. And certainly no cell phones. And here's this guy talking as he was walking along. And I stepped into the street and nearly got creamed by a New York taxicab. So talk about being prescient and seeing a picture of the future."
The first cell phone was 10 inches long and weighed 2.2 pounds, reported CBS. But it was approximately 10 years later until Motorola introduced a cell phone that was available to the mass market.
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