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18 hours ago · The first mobile phone call in the UK was made nearly 40 years ago. Michael Harrison, the son of former Vodafone Chairman Sir Ernest Harrison, was the first to test the system, calling his father at midnight on the 1st of January, 1985.
2 days ago · Answer: Made first mobile phone call The call made by Ernie Wise was from St Katherine's Dock in London. This was a publicity stunt for the fledgling Vodafone network. A few hours earlier, the first actual credited mobile call the UK was made by Michael Harrison to his father Ernest Harrison, chairman of Vodafone.
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Apr 19, 2024 · Alexander Graham Bell (born March 3, 1847, Edinburgh, Scotland—died August 2, 1922, Beinn Bhreagh, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada) was a Scottish-born American inventor, scientist, and teacher of the deaf whose foremost accomplishments were the invention of the telephone (1876) and the refinement of the phonograph (1886).
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1 day ago · Alexander Graham Bell ( / ˈɡreɪ.əm /, born Alexander Bell; March 3, 1847 – August 2, 1922) [4] was a Scottish-born [N 1] Canadian-American inventor, scientist and engineer who is credited with patenting the first practical telephone. He also co-founded the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) in 1885.
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May 1, 2024 · From the introduction of the telephone in the late 1870s, [5] to the early 1990s, telephone numbers in most of the United Kingdom were usually shown with a written exchange name followed by the subscriber number, e.g. 'Mallaig 10' or 'Aberdeen 43342'. This allowed calls to be placed initially through the operator and later by using local or ...
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3 days ago · Martin Cooper (born December 26, 1928, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.) is an American engineer who led the team that in 1972–73 built the first mobile cell phone and made the first cell phone call. He is widely regarded as the father of the cellular phone. Cooper graduated from the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) in Chicago with a bachelor ...
Apr 30, 2024 · Trace the revolutionary journey of mobile communication as we revisit the historic moment when the first mobile phone call was made in 1973, heralding a new ...
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