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Hold the Phone (Winter 2007)

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Technology Telephones, cellular Inventors and invention Business history Telegraphs; telephones Technological innovation 20th century United States American Telephone and Telegraph Company Motorola

Motorola told its engineers: “We need a hand-held mobile telephone in three months.” Nobody had ever made one before.

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Authors & Contributors
Denise Tsang
Bernstein, Mark
Bedwell, Don
Kleine, Marie Stettler
Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra
Farley, Tom
Journals
American Heritage of Invention and Technology
Revue Économiques
Icon: Journal of the International Committee for the History of Technology
Business History Review
Business and Economic History On-Line
British Journal for the History of Science
Publishers
Prentice-Hall
Penguin
MIT Press
IEEE
Duke University Press
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Concepts
Technological innovation
Inventors and invention
Technology
Telegraphs; telephones
Business history
Electronics
People
Ocker, William C.
Midgley, Jr., Thomas
Tesla, Nikola
Morse, Samuel Finley Breese
Kettering, Charles Franklin
Brattain, Walter Houser
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
21st century
20th century, early
20th century, late
Places
United States
Great Britain
Japan
Massachusetts (U.S.)
Institutions
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Bell Telephone Laboratories
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