From radio to space ... the journey of making the first mobile phone in the world

The mobile phone industry went through milestones and it took a long time to get this invention..Man arrived in the moon before the invention of the mobile!

In 1928, the brothers Powell and Joseph Galvin bought the bankruptcy Battle Company "Stewart" for $ 750..At that time, no one imagined that this small bankrupt company will turn into the giant "Motorola", and it will be the credit for making the first mobile phone in the world after 50 years of that moment.

Under the name "Galvin Industrialization", the company launched its business depending on a capital of $ 565 and only 5 employees, and it was its first "battery alternative" product, according to the "Motorola" website..

The "Radio" was the preoccupation of the company's owners at the time, in which they saw an invention that could be developed into several forms that could benefit from a great and saturated market..

The innovation of the "battery alternative" was a device that enabled the battery -powered radio devices to operate electricity at home, and later the company focused on the radio itself.

Great depression and car radio

A year after the start of its work, and while "Galvin" is looking for growth, the great recession struck in 1929 the American financial markets and the entire country was affected while "Galvin" approached bankruptcy, as radio sales declined.

But the founder "Powell" managed to avoid this nation with grace through the design of "incomplete car radio" that can be installed in most cars.

Through the hard work, Jalfin was able to present a business model for radio at the Radio Factory Conference in June 1930, and later attracted huge requests that were able to stay on the company on its feet..

World War II and wireless experience

In the year 1939, with the beginning of World War II, "Galvin" was at the height of a new stage of prosperity, but it stopped its entertainment projects to focus on the projects related to the war after the United States became involved in 1941.

Among the products created by "Jalfin" for the war is what was called "Radio Battle Radio".

Before the United States entered the Second World War, Donald Mitchell, Eng. Galvin, developed a preliminary model of a dual -directional radio (sends and receives the sign).

Although the army is not interested in this innovation due to its short period (1.6 km), Mitchell continued to improve the design, a two -way radio breakfast can carry and operate one hand, and it was working with a battery weighing 2.2 kg.

In 1940, Galvin's engineers developed a Handie-Talkie Scr536, which later became the icon of World War II.

Post -war well -being..TV and innovation era

After the war, "Galvin" changed its name in 1947 to "Motorola" and launched in a new stage in which it relied on the manufacture of televisions that the world had first known in 1939.

In 1947 alone, the company made more than 100,000 TVs and joined a leading group of international TV manufacturers.

In the 1950s, the American economy had quickly recovered from World War II, and the Americans were more important to buy home entertainment equipment.

Television sales and the number of stations and television networks increased quickly, while Motorola developed several innovations, including the first stereotype "Estrio" audio recorder, which has become the struggle of this era in the world.

This innovation was a fan of the company in order to go into many innovations that succeeded in some of them and failed in the other, and he quoted Powell Galfin his saying at the time: "Do not be afraid of mistakes..Wisdom is often generated from these mistakes..

NASA and the Space Communications Age

In 1958, the National Air Navigation and Space Administration (NASA) was established, and Motorola became one of the first space telecommunications providers.

Among the early contributions was the transmission and reception devices that were supplied with the American space ship "Mariner 2", as it was launched in 1962 to explore Venus.

Motorola equipment was also present in 1968 during the manned Apollo flights that led to the first landing of the moon in July 1969.

The first mobile phone in the world

The world's first mobile phone was a product of the accumulation of many experiences that Motorola gained over the years of its work.

After a series of attempts between American companies to create solutions facing technical crises for communications, in 1973, Motorola managed to produce the first mobile phone based on "cell" technology under the name Dynatac.

The inventor of this phone was Eng. Martin Cooper, who joined Motorola in 1954.

The Motorola Dynatac 8000X mobile phone was the first of this series in terms of trade offering in 1983 after obtaining approval from the American Federal Communications Committee in 1983.

And the phone, which won wide fame and spread globally, was able to stay for 30 minutes calls, and 8 hours in the waiting position, and it stores 30 numbers and weighs about a kilogram, and its price was $ 3995 at the offering in 1983.