Amos Edward Joel Jr. died at the age of 90

The man in the photograph, Amos Edward Joel Jr. ( Amos E. Joel Jr. ), died on October 25 at his home in Marplewood, New Jersey, at the age of 90.



Notable about this man really has something to tell: Amos Joel was one of the pioneers of the cellular industry, an engineer who paved the way for almost all the current mobile communications giants.



New York Times :

Mr. Joel received more than 70 patents, but was probably best known for the patent number 3,663,762, which was issued in 1972 and allowed mobile network users to make continuous calls when moving from one cell to another.

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“Without this invention, there would not be all these people scurrying around while simultaneously talking on a mobile phone,” says Frank Vigilante, who was one of Joel’s bosses at Bell Labs. "He allowed this business to form and become a real business."

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