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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. Pager - Wikipedia

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    Yes. Current supplier. Various. 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.

  4. Tim Berners-Lee - Wikipedia

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    Contents. Tim Berners-Lee. Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee (born 8 June 1955), [ 1 ] also known as TimBL, is an English computer scientist best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web, the HTML markup language, the URL system, and HTTP. He is a professorial research fellow at the University of Oxford [ 2 ] and a professor emeritus at the ...

  5. Martin Cooper (inventor) - Wikipedia

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    Martin Cooper (inventor) Martin Cooper (born December 26, 1928) is an American engineer. He is a pioneer in the wireless communications industry, especially in radio spectrum management, with eleven patents in the field. [2][3] On April 3, 1973, he placed the first public call from a handheld portable cell phone while working at Motorola, from ...

  6. Alexander Graham Bell - Wikipedia

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    a Boston University (see below). b See below. c Two died soon after birth. Alexander Graham Bell (/ ˈɡreɪ.əm /, born Alexander Bell; March 3, 1847 – August 2, 1922) [4] was a Scottish-born [N 1] Canadian-American inventor, scientist, and engineer who is credited with patenting the first practical telephone.

  7. Thomas Edison - Wikipedia

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    Edison in 1861. Thomas Edison was born in 1847 in Milan, Ohio, but grew up in Port Huron, Michigan, after the family moved there in 1854. [8] He was the seventh and last child of Samuel Ogden Edison Jr. (1804–1896, born in Marshalltown, Nova Scotia) and Nancy Matthews Elliott (1810–1871, born in Chenango County, New York).

  8. Johannes Gutenberg - Wikipedia

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    Johannes Gensfleisch zur Laden zum Gutenberg[a] (c. 1393–1406 – 3 February 1468) was a German inventor and craftsman who invented the movable-type printing press. Though movable type was already in use in East Asia, Gutenberg's invention of the printing press [2] enabled a much faster rate of printing. The printing press later spread across ...

  9. Motorola Pageboy - Wikipedia

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    Motorola Pageboy was the second pager produced by Motorola with individual-unit addressing, [clarification needed] after the lesser-known "Handie-Talkie Radio Pocket Pager" from 1955. [citation needed] The first pager-like system was used in 1921 by the Detroit Police Department. However, the first pager that we would today recognize as such ...