50 years ago, Martin Cooper, the inventor of the mobile phone, made the first mobile call


American Martin Cooper, inventor of the cell phone. © Valerie Macon, AFP

On April 3, 1973, in a New York street, the American Martin Cooper, inventor of the mobile phone, made the first mobile call in history. Fifty years later, this 94-year-old engineer remembers this unique moment. He looks both admiringly and worriedly at the evolution of the mobile phone and its excessive use by some people.

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