Sad that Jack Welch protégé Jim McNerney turned 3M into a company that will no longer risk inventing the adhesive or the Post-it Note.

Martin Cooper was a guest at one of the Star Trek Anniversary conventions, at the Sci Fi Museum in Seattle. He spoke for a while about cell phones and Star Trek. I was one of the Klingons wandering around, he actually asked to get a picture with =me=. Pretty cool.

@Psycandy

Жыл бұрын

jatlh tlhInganpu' ('represent!')

@jamesdep8128

9 ай бұрын

Guy keep this story to yourself

@PaulLevinson

6 ай бұрын

Cool!

The calculator changed my world. I was born in 1961, my dad was a tool and die man for NCR in Dayton Oh. Making small parts for the cash registers that were literally everywhere. The move to silicone based devices cut the size of the company by more than 50%. He worked in construction building homes for the rest of his life. We went from a nice life to government cheese.

@edwardpaulsen1074

Жыл бұрын

Sorry to hear that... I was born in '62 but I guess I was lucky enough that my dad learned and altered his skills to keep going... We had our "government cheese moments (and years) but he kept going and later we purchased a farm and lived fairly well... I grew up fascinated with the electronics and learned all I could and eventually became an engineer... calculators were nice, but I still know how to use a slide rule and do a lot of math in my head.

Ferdinand Porsche invented the hybrid car before The Wright brothers made the first flight. The car was in production for 5 years. It was the first 4WD car as well.

Brilliant documentary

Really good video. Surprised at the low viewership.

23:54 - That's one weird looking "Ford Cortina"

intro video of a woman on a scooter using a phone... darwin adapts to every technology when framing his awards!

@JTA1961

Жыл бұрын

Athefumen

I like that lawn mower idea lol sounds like something a kid would do.

The advantages of necessity, Miller could use his skills to produce something inconceivable to others. Now days, everything needs 30 years planning to prove it’s use. Believe in the ‘men in sheds’ process!

Great video!

I near soiled myself when I seen millers self winding lawnmower. I was on a farm doing a service call fixing a farmers baler in very rural Canada, when I seen a young fellow 12-13 years old sitting on a fence watching a self propelled lawn mower. It was winding itself up with a rope on a thick post, I was amazed. This was 1983 !!! Before any internet social media. I wonder if the mother of necessity for invention births the same idea to multiple people?

April 3, 1973 ( first cell phone call, placed by Marty Cooper )

Pure genius when I was first married wr couldn't afford to have a house .phone installed Here I am now at 71 years old and I love my mobile phone

marty cooper is 83 now . that man has a lot to answer for...... give him a call, mabye on a landline, haha

"Every Bomb Disposal Man Alive" - think about that.

Nicola Tesla envisioned the cell phone 100 years ago.

Here in the U.S., the first successful electric car made its debut around 1890 thanks to William Morrison, a chemist who lived in Des Moines, Iowa. His six-passenger vehicle capable of a top speed of 14 miles per hour was little more than an electrified wagon, but it helped spark interest in electric vehicles. Over the next few years, electric vehicles from different automakers began popping up across the U.S. New York City even had a fleet of more than 60 electric taxis. By 1900, electric cars were at their heyday, accounting for around a third of all vehicles on the road. During the next 10 years, they continued to show strong sales.

42:52 Typical government. If this guy solves their problem, how is the gvt going to keep all their in-house researchers working. Remember, every supervisory govt employee gets a salary based on how many people report to her/him and if they reduce their headcount, their own salary goes down.

1970's - Victor Wouk spends years developing a hybrid powered vehicle. Seemingly oblivious to the technology already being used in railway locomotives from General Electric as far back as 1909 but more commonly in Alco & Baldwin locomotives from 1925, or used in Swedish Railways from 1913. Seems like a rather wasted effort on his behalf. A licensing deal may have been lest costly or time consuming.

I think that brick phone that made the call in 73 wasn't available to the public till the 80s

@billolsen4360

Жыл бұрын

I had a brick in 84. Used to put it on restaurant dining tables at business lunches just to impress people, lol. Even in LA, they were staring at me like I was James Bond. A couple did ask once in Westwood & I told them I was an IRS investigator...that REALLY scared em.

@theodoreritola7641

Жыл бұрын

YOu think ?LOOOK IT UP

@theodoreritola7641

Жыл бұрын

WATCH the tv show CANNON . He had a cell phone And so did many other shows and movies in the 70s

The US Army had "Walky Talky" in WW11 - looked more or less the same only bigger. Sgt Bilko had one too on the Phill Silvers show from the 1950s. Their haircuts are too modern for the 1970's.

@jtveg

Жыл бұрын

There are fundamental differences between walkie talkies and mobile phones. First of all you can't simply call whoever it is you want to call by simply dialing their number and they don't use a cellular system that allocates and changes the transmitted frequency on the fly like cell phones do. More importantly walkie talkies are a single channel system whereas phones operate on 2 channels (full duplex) so that you can simultaneously transmit and receive at the same time. No need to say "over". Over and out.

@Kinann

Жыл бұрын

Motorola made those as well and called them handie-talkies.

14:54 wow she shot him one hell of a look. If looks could kill.

The Lawn Mower was Tethered and Not 'Remote Control'

@JTA1961

Жыл бұрын

Your~rope~pean model

"We invented Post-Its" - Romy and Michele

What technologies of the 2020s will seem most significant 50 years later? Aren’t you a tad curious after watching this video?

COOL

Everything was impossible, until one or more person did it.

I loved the show you cant do that on tv in 1986 George Dietlein

The MASSIVE amounts of stifling that have occurred due to powerful interests only looking at short-term gain... All the things we could/should have had if it weren't for GREED. for the people ~ by the people has become for the stockholders by corporations

Thank you Marty Cooper for placing a ball and chain around nearly every humans neck in the world! Maybe some feel it is a security bankie. Who would feel comfortable going shopping without your phone? Try it for a week. 😲😮😱😥

@jtveg

Жыл бұрын

You could say the same thing about the inventors of comfortable shoes. How about you try walking barefoot for about a week. Shoes are such a ball and chain aren't they? No one is forcing you to answer calls or to engage with strangers like myself on social media. The benefits of affordable global communication as well as having encyclopedic information instantly available at your fingertips far outweighs and perceived negatives. It amazes me how some people pine for a return to the dark ages when they obviously don't have a clue how bad it really was.

@phiddlephart7026

Жыл бұрын

@@jtveg #1 I like to go barefoot & only wear shoes to shop cause stores don't allow bare feet. # 2 I'm 66 & don't remember anyone worrying about a missed call when we only had land lines. They always said, "if it is important they will call back.

@jtveg

Жыл бұрын

@@phiddlephart7026 I bet you are full of crap about the bare feet and secondly the same applies to cell phones. If it's important enough they will call back and better still, they can leave a text, voicemail, email, voice message, video message etc. much better than before. You sound like one of them dinosaurs about to be extinct crying "it was better in my day" which is what every generation about to be replaced by the next one always complains about. Which is absolutely and demonstrably not true. Every generation for centuries now has consistently been getting better, smarter, healthier, wealthier, lives longer, is more compassionate, is less violent, is more generous, and commits less crime than the generation before it. You can't stop progress grandpa.

@phiddlephart7026

Жыл бұрын

@@jtveg playing on cell phones rather than face to face communication illiterate high school grads because of no student left behind wealthier? inflation US dollar lost 86% of its value since the 70's less crime/violence? total jail population increase 665%. suicides in the '70s 11.6% compared to today which is 13,48% just to cover a few of your points. ( wear a hat maybe no one will notice). Get your head out of the clouds and check the statistics. P. S. I feel you are passionate about your beliefs and applaud you about that & some things are better today than in my "age", but you need to research some of the things things you believe in. STAY SAFE and have a good life and when you are 66 look back to your childhood.

@jtveg

Жыл бұрын

@@phiddlephart7026 _"playing on cell phones rather than face to face communication"_ is a meme because its prevalence is exaggerated by folks like you and has not been shown to be harmful anyway. Every generation interacts with each other differently. It can't be shown to be objectively wrong. Anyway, I'm talking about statistics averaged out over a generation (roughly 30 years). So you can't point to short term spikes or highs or lows in some years and then use that to refute any particular statistics years before. The statistics I'm talking about aren't even specifically related the USA alone. These statistics are from a scientifically peer reviewed study that showed this to be a *_global trend._* The value of one nation's currency with respect to another's is irrelevant when talking about the purchasing power of people in general, especially in the third world. The general trend has been upwards even if some first world countries' purchasing power was reduced. The gains in the third world more than offset that loss. Probably because wealth and resources were inappropriately distributed in the first place like when the USA engaged in slave labour and places like England engaged in highly polluting industrial practices and child labor. Practices no longer in use nor will the third world engage in to catch up. Anyway, no matter how you look at it, the general trend has been upward. infant mortality is lower than ever, life spans are higher than ever. crime numbers might be higher but so is population. crime rate per 100 000 is in fact lower over the entire spectrum of crimes. You can't point to one particular crime and think it refutes the general trend. Living standards are higher because people need to work less to buy the same amount of food clothing and shelter than they did only a couple of generations ago. Remember this is a global trend, so just because there's a civil war in Haiti and they're all murdering each other or some dictator sprays his citizens with chemical weapons doesn't mean all of humanity is going to sh|t. Every generation is generally better than the last in almost all metrics. FYI: Replace the underscores with dots. www_disastercenter_com/crime/uscrime_htm

What about the personal computer?

All inventions that succeed shake the world. Human powered flight did not shalke the world hardly made blip there is no market for it.

32:09

Marty Cooper

Stick it on the microwave and the fridadear

Mobile communicators???

Telefon/- Car/- Chip/- Robot/- Watch/- Mobile/- Facetoface

Major mistake--the first electric car was in 1839, the first hybrid was 1899. Don't you fools even think to do some research first? If high capacity, rechargeable batteries had been available in the 19th century, I think we'd have seen far more electric cars over the last hundred plus years. You can't even point to the 70s as being when electric cars took off. That wasn't until the 21st century. I wonder how many other claims made in this video are equally nonsense? This video is supposed to be just about inventions of the 70s, not include inventions that had been around for many decades. The people this reminds me of, are Musk's fans, who believe he invented the "Hyperloop" from nothing, when the idea has been around for over a hundred years. Definitely not subbing to this idiocy.

Lets go Obama....33:15

@JTA1961

Жыл бұрын

entire groups of words making sense, strung together and understood by all... What a novel concept. Maybe someday it'll happen again ( however I'm not holding my breath)

I don't think the world shook.