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First public mobile phone call is made
Motorola engineer Martin Cooper stands on a sidewalk in midtown Manhattan and uses a prototype handheld mobile phone to call his team's main competitor in the field, Bell Labs' Joel Engel. The first handheld cell phone is nicknamed 'the brick.'