kgnjkdvn Wrote:
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> Absolutely racism exists. All over America there
> are people who get treated differently because of
> their ethnicity.
>
> On April 3rd, 1973, Motorola engineer Marty Cooper
> placed the first public call from a cellphone
> according to the Verge. In midtown Manhattan,
> Cooper called Joel Engel — head of rival
> research department Bell Labs — saying “Joel,
> this is Marty. I’m calling you from a cell
> phone, a real handheld portable cell phone.” The
> call was placed on a Motorola DynaTAC 8000x, which
> weighed 2.5 pounds, a far cry from today’s
> 4-ounce handsets.
>
> If it wasn’t for Dr. Henry T. Sampson we
> wouldn’t have cell phone technology today.
> Isn’t it funny how the mainstream media hasn’t
> made him a icon based off of his invention?
> Cellular telephony has spawned a Multi-billion
> dollar industry and has freed tens of millions of
> people, both at home and at work, to communicate
> anywhere, any time. I would of thought he would on
> the Times and Forbes magazines next to Bill Gate
> and Steve Jobs for discovering one of the greatest
> creations of our time.
Except he didn't...
HENRY T. SAMPSON - Inventor of Gamma Electric Cell
Dr. Henry T. Sampson has been mistakenly noted as the inventor of the cellular phone. According to Dr. Sampson, the Gamma Electric Cell, patented July 6, 1971, Patent No. 3,591,860 produces stable high-voltage output and current to detect radiation in the ground.
http://blackinventions.org/errata.htm