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  2. Al Gross (engineer) - Wikipedia

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    Al Gross (engineer) Irving " Al " Gross (/ ɡroʊs /; February 22, 1918 – December 21, 2000) was a pioneer in mobile wireless communication. He created and patented many communications devices, specifically in relation to an early version of the walkie-talkie, [1] Citizens' Band radio, [2] the telephone pager [2] and the cordless telephone.

  3. Doctors and first responders are among those who still use pagers

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    Inventor Al Gross, regarded by some as the “founding father” of wireless communication, patented the pager in 1949 intending to make it available to doctors. But they balked, he said, at the prospect of being on-call 24/7.

  4. Pager - Wikipedia

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    Pager. A pager, also known as a beeper or bleeper, [1] is a wireless telecommunications device that receives and displays alphanumeric or voice messages. One-way pagers can only receive messages, while response pagers and two-way pagers can also acknowledge, reply to, and originate messages using an internal transmitter. [2]

  5. Al Gross (politician) - Wikipedia

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    Website. Campaign website. Alan Stuart Gross (born April 13, 1962) is an American politician, orthopedic surgeon and commercial fisherman. Running as an independent candidate, he was the Democratic nominee for the 2020 United States Senate election in Alaska, losing the race to incumbent Republican Dan Sullivan. [1]

  6. What we know about the Hezbollah pagers that exploded in Lebanon

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    The pagers "were entirely different" from Gold Apollo's designs and used a chip that Gold Apollo does not use in its own models, Hsu said. Hsu told NPR that Gold Apollo's relationship with Bac ...

  7. Thousands injured, several dead after pagers explode across ...

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    September 17, 2024 at 6:09 PM. At least nine civilians are dead and over 2,750 were injured after pager devices owned by a large number of members in various Hezbollah units and institutions ...

  8. Citizens band radio - Wikipedia

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    CB's inventor, Al Gross, made the ceremonial first legal British CB call from Trafalgar Square in London. The maximum power allowable on the MPT 1320 27/81 system was 4 watts (in common with the American system), although initially radios were equipped to reduce output power by 10 dB (to 0.4 watts) if the antenna was mounted more than 7 meters ...

  9. Republicans are red and Democrats blue. But it wasn’t ... - AOL

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    In one of the few studies about the use of “red state” and “blue state,” Benjamin Gross, a sociology and criminology professor at New York’s St. Bonaventure University, analyzed ...