History Of The Cellular Phone
Author: Juan José

In today's technologically advanced world, just about everyone
has a cellular phone. Adults, teenagers, and even children
carry around portable models of the telephone. What is really
hard to believe is that just 15 years ago seeing a cellular
phone was quite rare.

The history of the cellular phone is very interesting and shows
just how the portable wonder became what it is today.

The history of the cell phone begins with a skilled, analytical
chemist named Michael Farady. In 1843 he began exhaustive
research to find of space could conduct electricity. He told of
his findings, and these advances of 19 th century science and
technology have had an immeasurable effect on the development
of today's cellular phone.

In 1865 a dentist by the name of Dr. Mahlon Loomis became what
is thought to be the first person who was able to communicate
wirelessly through the atmosphere. Between the dates of 1866
and 1873 he was able to transmit telegraphic messages 18 miles
between the tops of the Cohocton and Beorse Deer Mountains in
Virginia.

Loomis developed a way of transmitting and receiving messages
by using Earth's atmosphere as a conductor. He launched kites,
enclosed with copper screens, that were linked to the ground
with copper wires. He was awarded a $50,000 research grant from
Congress to continue his studies.

Fast forward to 1973 when Dr. Martin Cooper became who is
thought to be the inventor of the first portable handset. A
former general manager fro the systems division of Motorola,
Dr. Cooper was also the first person to make a call using a
portable cell phone.

He set up a base station in New York with the first working
prototype of a cell phone, called the Motorola Dyna-Tac. Both
he and Motorola took this technology to New York to show the
public.

In 1977 cell phone went public and public testing began.
Chicago was the home for the first trials with 2,000 people.
Later trials appeared in Washington, D.C. and Baltimore. It
spread to Japan in 1979.

Typical technologies changed in 1988 when the Cellular
Technology Industry Association, or CTIA, was formed to lay out
practical goals for cell phone providers. Included was research
for new applications of development.

In 1991 the Telecommunications Industry Association set a new
standard with the creation of the TDMA Interim Standard 54.

The history of the cell phone has had quite a long journey.
Even though there was a great demand for cell phones, it took a
total of 37 years for them to become commercially accessible in
the United States.

It's hard to believe that, since the cell phone has only become
popular over the past couple of decades, wireless service was
actually invented almost 50 years ago.

According to the CTIA, there are more than 60 million people
who own cell phones. Just 25 years ago the cellular business
had a $3 million market, while today it has grown to be an
industry worth close to $30 billion per year.


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