An engineer demonstrates a car phone five months before the historic first call on a competing company’s commercial mobile telephone service in 1946.
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The ubiquity of mobile phones is a defining feature of the 21st century, but it’s been possible to place a phone call on the go since shortly after World War II.
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Fibres that imitate the double helix of DNA can make artificial muscles more powerful than those found in nature.
Astronaut Buzz Aldrin on the Moon during the Apollo 11 mission.
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The technologies behind weather forecasting, GPS and even smartphones can trace their origins to the race to the Moon.