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Museum Objects: The First Mobile Phone Call

April 04, 2013

U.S.A, 1973 - The first mobile phone call was placed 40 years ago on April 3, 1973, from a Manhattan street corner -- 6th Avenue between 53rd and 54th -- by Motorola’s Martin Cooper. And today with 6 billion cell phones worldwide it has become the most ubiquitous electronic device. See it and others on Pinterest.