Martin Cooper holds a Motorola DynaTAC, a 1973 prototype of the first handheld cellular telephone on Market Street in San Francisco in 2003. (Photo: Eric Risberg, Associated Press)
Since Tuesday marks National Telephone Day, let’s remember an important moment in the device’s history: the first cellphone call.
It happened in 1973, several years before the first cellphone was even sold. Martin Cooper made the first call on a cellular network using a Motorola DynaTac.
In its early days, the cellphone was a novelty, often reserved for the wealthy. Today, nearly 95% of Americans own a cell phone, according to Pew Research Center. Of those, 77% of Americans own a smartphone.
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