A Day In a Japanese Fishing Village

Chapter 512: Finding the Father of Cell Phones

   On this day, Minano Shuichi was sitting quietly in a high-end cafe on the streets of New York.

  The slender fingers gently stirred this cup of hot coffee with a spoon.

   He is waiting for two people, one of them is the headhunter of the headhunting company, and the other is the person he is looking for.

   "Mr. Minano, you have been waiting for a long time, I finally brought someone." At this time, Steven from the headhunting company came to Minami Shuuichi with a man in his 30s with a big nose.

   "This is Mr. Minano, well, this is Mr. Martin Cooper you are looking for." Steven introduced the two to each other.

   "Hello." Martin Cooper looked a little reserved, but still held out his hand.

   "Hello, please take a seat." Minamino Shuichi symbolically shook hands with Martin Cooper.

   But Steven did not sit down, but said very politely: "Mr. Nanye, my task is completed, if there is nothing else, then I will leave first."

   "Well, I will credit the rest of the payment to your account." Minano Shuichi didn't look at Steve, but stared at Martin Cooper.

   "Okay, bye Mr. Minano."

   There were only two people left in the seats.

  Martin Cooper is not very tall, he looks a bit like Santa Claus, especially his nose is big and red. He looks about 30 years old now.

  Martin Cooper was a little embarrassed by Minano Shuichi looking at him like this.

   In fact, he was a little hesitant to meet this time at first, but he finally decided to come over after thinking about it. Just yesterday, he was found by Steven from the headhunting firm. The other party said that an old boss wanted to see him.

   To be honest, as a researcher of Motorola, he was suddenly invited by a big boss and was a little stunned. He also didn't know what the big boss was going to do with him. He doesn't seem to know any big bosses, does he?

   But when Steve mentioned the word mobile phone, his eyes suddenly lit up, because Steve said that the big boss was very interested in mobile phone research.

   So after some hesitation, he came over.

   "You are Martin Cooper, currently working for Motorola?" Minamino said slowly after looking at it for more than a minute.

   "Yes." Martin Cooper nodded undeniably.

   "Fu~ I finally found a talent." Minano Shuichi smiled softly.

   "Huh?" Martin Cooper was a little puzzled.

   "Nothing, I want to ask if you are currently studying the topic of mobile phones?" Minami Shuichi asked straight to the point.

"Yes...but, but there is little progress so far, and I haven't received funding for research. Now I have been relying on myself... Hey, Mr. Minano, how did you know that I was researching mobile phones?" Martin Cooper explained a After that, she was shocked again.

   "You don't need to know about this, I just wanted to ask you if you would like to resign and work with me?" Minami Hideyoshi said.

   He now clearly knows that the Martin Cooper in front of him is the talent he is looking for. Speaking of this name, many people may not know it, or even hear it. But he has another nickname, that is - the father of mobile phones!

   One day in April 1973, a man stood on the street in New York, took out a wireless phone about the size of two bricks, and made a call, which attracted passers-by to stop and look. This man is the inventor of the cell phone, Martin Cooper. At that time, Cooper was an engineering technician of the famous Motorola company in the United States.

   That's right, he invented the world's first mobile phone!

   And as soon as Hideyoshi Minano heard that he was researching mobile phones by himself, and Motorola had not started researching it, he knew that it would be very easy to kidnap this person.

  According to memory, Minami Shuichi clearly knew the concept of mobile phone, which appeared as early as the 1940s. At that time, Bell Labs, the largest communications company in the United States, began trial production. In 1946, Bell Labs created the first so-called cellular telephone. However, due to its large size, researchers could only put it on a shelf in the laboratory, and slowly people forgot about it.

   It wasn't until the late 1960s that companies like AT&T and Motorola became interested in this technology. At the time, AT&T rented out a bulky mobile wireless phone that customers could put on large trucks. AT&T's vision is that in the future it will be able to develop a mobile phone with a power of 10 watts that uses the radio on the truck to communicate. Cooper believes that the phone is too large and heavy to be moved and carried around. As a result, Motorola applied to the Federal Communications Commission of the United States, requiring that the power of mobile communication equipment should only be one watt, and the maximum should not exceed three watts. In fact, most cell phones today have a maximum of 500 milliwatts of radio power.

   That's how Martin Cooper developed the world's first mobile phone in 1973!

  It can also be seen from this point that Motorola has not yet carried out research on mobile phones. Motorola began to pick up this thing and start researching it in the late 1960s.

   But it was the late 1950s, so although Martin Cooper was working on mobile phones, he had no funds, no labs, and no team, and he knew he was doing it all by himself.

  Martin Cooper also had the opportunity to develop a mobile phone when Motorola began to invest money and manpower and material resources in researching this mobile phone.

   Now Minano Shuichi is going to set up a telecommunications company, not only for communication, but also for mobile phones, so he came to Martin Cooper.

   He felt that it would be better to leave it to Motorola than to kidnap him.

   "Huh? What do you do with your resignation?" Martin Cooper was stunned after hearing this. Although he is only the first ordinary researcher of Motorola, the salary is good and the treatment is good. He also needs to support a family. He will not quit the job easily.

   And he still doesn't know what kind of boss Minano Shuichi is, and he doesn't know what he wants to poach himself.

Seeing the other party's doubts, Hideo Minami smiled and said, "I am the chairman of Minami Collective. If you don't say anything, a car company under my company is N times stronger than your Motorola company. I plan to open a communication company. I am very interested in mobile phones, and I think it will definitely be a very popular thing in the future. I plan to set up a research department specializing in mobile phones. I want to hire you as the research team leader, I don’t know if you are interested.”

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