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Martin Cooper, now aged 85, is renowned as the "father" of the mobile phone.
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Martin Cooper revolutionized the wireless industry by inventing the handheld mobile phone.
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Martin Cooper, a senior engineer at Motorola, called a rival colleague at another telecoms company and announced he was speaking from "a 'real' cellular telephone".
BBC: Mobile phone celebrates 40th anniversary
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On April 3, 1973, Martin Cooper, a researcher at Motorola, made the world's first-ever call from a cellular telephone, a device he helped to create that weighed two pounds and had a mere 20-minute battery life.
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In addition, and without implying they would necessarily agree with the views expressed here, the author would like to thank: Lajos Bokros, Robert Braun, Martin Bruncko, Robert Cooper, Pavol Demes, Jeremy Druker, Michel Foucher, Andrew Gardner, Heather Grabbe, Charles Grant, Istvan Gyarmati, David Kral, Mart Laar, Edward Lucas, Alina Mungiu-Pippidi, Jiri Pehe, Sandra Pralong, Olli Rehn, Gyorgy Schopflin, James Sherr, Pirkka Tapiola, Emma Udwin and Alexander Vondra.
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CNN's Dave Alsup, Rick Martin, Devon Sayers, Aaron Cooper, Todd Spoerry, and Joe Sutton contributed to this report.
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Gareth Cooper, Dwayne Peel, Martin Roberts and Richie Rees have played at nine for Wales in Phillips' absence.
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"The general process of suburbanization is, the richer you are, the more likely you move to the suburbs, " says Julie Martin, a senior demographer for the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service at the University of Virginia.
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If Peel and Cooper are absent while Osprey Mike Phillips' recovery from knee surgery continues, Scarlets rookie Martin Roberts would play against Australia.
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The screening-room designer most in demand is Jeff Cooper, an MIT-educated architect and acoustic engineer who has built facilities for George Lucas, Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, Robert Zemeckis and, most recently, Mr. Spielberg.
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