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The First Cell Phone Call

  • October 28, 2012
  • By KIDS DISCOVER

Engineer Martin Cooper made the first public cell phone call almost 40 years ago in New York City — on a device as big as a brick, which weighed more than two pounds! He called a colleague at a rival company … just to show off a little.

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