{"id":13062,"date":"2026-04-03T00:46:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T04:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=13062"},"modified":"2025-12-11T23:17:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T04:17:19","slug":"first-cell-phone-call-made-in-1973","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=13062","title":{"rendered":"First Cell Phone Call Made in 1973"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>First cell phone call was made in 1973<\/strong>. Martin Cooper, a Motorola executive, used the DynaTAC, which was called the &#8220;Brick.&#8221; The phone was 8 inches by 1.5 inches by 4 inches. It weighed 2.5 pounds. Children can listen to Martin Cooper explain the event at:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DMbGrakUHc4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DMbGrakUHc4<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First cell phone call was made in 1973. Martin Cooper, a Motorola executive, used the DynaTAC, which was called the &#8220;Brick.&#8221; The phone was 8 inches by 1.5 inches by 4 inches. It weighed 2.5 pounds. Children can listen to Martin Cooper explain the event at:\u00a0https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DMbGrakUHc4<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4728,5451,2360,2357,2358,2359],"class_list":["post-13062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-4728","tag-april-3","tag-dynatac","tag-first-cell-phone","tag-first-cell-phone-call","tag-martin-cooper","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13062"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22173,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13062\/revisions\/22173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}