Vintage Chicago Tribune: The very first cellular telephone call took place 50 years ago this week, Chicago.
Motorola handie-talkie portable two-way radio, model SCR536, circa 1941.
In 1947 the company, which had since its founding in 1928 been known as the Galvin Manufacturing Corp., changed its name to Motorola Inc. — a name company founder Paul Galvin had given the car radios his company made — and introduced the first commercially available portable two-way radios, the 250 milliwatt “handie-talkie” radiophone.Police officer Michael Capesius holds a new portable two-way radio being field tested for Motorola at East Chicago police station on March 21, 1967, in Chicago.
Like skyscrapers, improv comedy or even a good hot dog, the cellphone was born in Chicago but quickly claimed by New York City as its own. Cooper was standing on Sixth Avenue just blocks from Radio City Music Hall in Manhattan on April 3, 1973 when he dialed his Chicago-built cellphone prototype.Original Tribune story from April 4, 1973: Soon you can make calls on the portable phone “while riding in a taxicab or bus, walking down the street, sitting in a theater or other building, or shopping.
A bunch of grown men ran a race to determine who would be the country’s first commercial mobile cellphone customer. The event at Soldier Field included play-by-play by former Cubs announcer Jack Brickhouse.
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