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World's first mobile .. 100 YEARS AGO
Sunday Mirror, May 4, 2008 by DENNIS ELLAM
HIS name won't ring any bells... but Nathan B. Stubblefield was the man who gave the world its first mobile phone.
Well, almost ...
He patented his amazing invention 100 years ago next week - just 30 years after Thomas Edison made the first proper phone call.
But the Stubblefield portable telephone - which used magnetic fields much like today's mobiles and could actually transmit a conversation to a receiver a mile away - never caught on.
The Kentucky melon farmer died a penniless hermit, but a century on he is finally being recognised. A Stubblefield page in his honour is being opened on the Virgin Mobile website, in time for the May 12 anniversary.
But it's hard to imagine a City type bellowing "I'm on the train" into a Stubblefield the size of a wheelbarrow.
And that's after they'd hammered two four-foot metal rods into the ground to carry the signal...
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