Henry Sampson

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HENRY SAMPSONAND

THE CELL PHONE


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Born in Jackson, Mississippi

Received a Bachelor's degree in science

from Purdue University in 1956.

Received a MS degree in engineering from

the Universityof California in 1961

Sampson alsoreceived his MS in Nuclear

Engineering from the Universityof Illinois

Urbana-Champaign in 1965 First African American to earn a Ph.D.in

Nuclear Engineering in the United States

HENRY THOMASSAMPSON, JR.

Prof. George Miley with hisstudent Henry Sampson inthe mid-1960s.


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CONTINUED...

Served in the U.S. Navy (1962-1964) as a research chemical engineer

A directorof planning and operations in the Aerospace Program forover 30 years.

He holds patents related to solid rocket motors and the conversionof

nuclear energy into electricity.

Producerof documentary films on earlyblack filmmakers and films

Technical consultant to Historical Black Colleges and Universities

Program


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Mobile telephone service in the

United States consisted mainlyof carphones and phone booths.

Which were extremely limited

because metropolitan areas had only

one antenna for these purposes

Limitations in frequencies, created

long durations of time waiting for a

dial tone and years to acquire service

BEFORE DR. SAMPSON

'SINVENTION


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THE GAMMA ELECTRICALCELL

Initially pertained tonuclearreactor use

Patented on July 6, 1971 by Henry Sampson

The Gamma Electric Cell produces stable high-voltage output and

current to detect radiation in the ground converting a gamma ray input

into an electric output.

Which led to the actual model of the cell phone by Motorola

researcher, Martin Cooper, in 1973.


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1979- First Cellularnetwork

was created (1G) in Japan. 1991- 2G cellularnetwork

created in Finland

1998- Implement ofmedia

content

1999- Camera/ Video Cell

Phone was created

EVOLUTION OF THE CELLPHONE

2001- Creationof 3G cellular

network

2005- Google creates the

Android operating system

2007- Apple creates the iPhone

2011- 4G cellularnetwork is

created in South Korea


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EVOLUTION:1973-2006


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In the 2000s, cell phones

joined the list of major mass

medias including: the

newspaper, the magazine, the

television, and the internet

CELL PHONES: THE 7

TH

MASS MEDIA


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CELL PHONE EXPANSION

Almost three times as many cell phone subscriptions as there are total

users on the internet. There are four times as many cell phones as there are personal

computers of all kinds laptops, desktops and servers combined.

There are more than five times as many cell phone subscriptions in the

world as there are cars.

There are 2.5 times as many cell phones as there are fixed landline

phones.


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Nokia

Motorola

Samsung

LG

Sony Ericsson

TOP MANUFACTURES


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Mobile telephones facilitate

activism and public journalism around

the world

The United Nations report that

mobile can improve the livelihoods of

the poorest people in developing

countries.

Phone Count predicts that by 2012

there will be as many connected

mobile phones as there are people in

the world.

IMPACT ON THE WORLD

Cell phone charging service inUganda


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Henry Sampson with Prof. Miley at the

2009 College of Engineering AwardsConvocation.


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CITATIONS

http://npre.illinois.edu/news/college-honors-npre-alumnus-

henry-t-sampson-jr

http://cellphones.org/blog/the-seventh-mass-media/

http://www.dipity.com/kouroupet/The-seventh-mass-media_1/#

http://www.aneki.com/cell_manufacturers.html

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