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Posted by Orange Blossom Special on Wed May 21 18:42:09 2008 Daily MailBack then the phones were powered by clean coal. It was the size of a dustbin lid and had a range of just half a mile. The world's first mobile phone could hardly be more different to today's devices, which are small enough to slip inside a pocket and can call almost anywhere in the world. But its inventor, Nathan Stubblefield, is finally being recognised as the father of mobile phone technology exactly 100 years after he patented his design for a "wireless telephone". The melon farmer came up with his invention in 1902 after devoting every spare hour and penny he had to establishing a telephone service in his rural home-town of Murray, Kentucky........in link |