Very first cell phone call: meet the man who made it ... and the engineer who helped make it happen
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It all started with a stolen car.
In 1983 Chicago resident David Meilahn's car was stolen. He bought a new one, a Mercedes Benz 280SL 2-seater. But then he needed to replace his old radio-phone ... and the sales rep told him there was something new: a cellular phone.
He was one of the first few to be selected, then won a race to place the very first commercial cell phone call, which ended up being from Soldier Field in Chicago, IL, to Alexander Graham Bell's grand-daughter in Germany.
This is his story, along with the story of Stuart Tararone, the AT&T engineer who helped build that system and still works for the company to this day.
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