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 develop mobile phones. Please watch the video at Investors.com - The ...

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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.