who invented cell phones

The invention of the cell phone is credited primarily to Dr. Martin Cooper, an American engineer at Motorola. He led the team that developed the first handheld mobile cell phone and made the first public call using such a device on April 3, 1973, in New York City. This groundbreaking call was placed to his counterpart at Bell Labs, marking a pivotal moment in telecommunications history. Before this, foundational work in wireless communication by others like Reginald Fessenden, who made the first wireless telephone call in 1900, and engineer William Rae Young, who proposed the cellular network concept in 1947, laid the groundwork for modern cellular phones. However, the first practical handheld cell phone was developed by Cooper and his Motorola team, which led to the commercial release of the Motorola DynaTAC 8000X in 1983. This original cell phone was quite large, weighing about 2.5 pounds, and had limited talk time but revolutionized how people communicate by making portable, wireless phone calls possible. Martin Cooper is widely regarded as the "father of the cellular phone" because of his pioneering role in creating and demonstrating this technology.