NEW YORK CITY -- On April 3, 1973, Martin Cooper stood on a sidewalk on sixth avenue in Manhattan with a device the size of a brick and made the first public call from a cell phone to one of the men ...

“Dick Tracy” got an atom-powered, two-way wrist radio in 1946. Marty Cooper never forgot it. The Chicago boy became a star engineer who ran Motorola’s research and development arm when the hometown ...

"If it wasn’t me, it would have been somebody else,” Martin Cooper, otherwise known as Marty, tells DCD. Except it wasn’t somebody else, it was Cooper who invented the first ever portable cell phone.

Martin Cooper isn’t just the father of the cellular phone – he’s also an avid user. Cooper, who made the world’s first cellular phone call as a Motorola executive in 1973 and who now serves as CEO of ...