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Correct Answer: Martin Cooper

Though Nathan Stubblefield did pioneer the idea of a battery-operated wireless telephone way back in 1902, he proved to be before his time. It wasn’t until 1973 that Martin “Marty” Cooper, an executive with Motorola, conceived of the first handheld cellular phone and spent the next decade bringing it to market. If you think your iPhone is too heavy, imagine this—the first model of Cooper cellular phone weighed 2.5lbs and measured almost a foot in length!

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The Official Birthday of Blue Jeans is May 20, 1873

Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis received a patent on May 20, 1873 for the process of adding metal rivets to men's denim work pants. The pants we all know and love were known as waist overalls until 1960.

This brilliant scientist is credited with the invention of the LASER, a distinction born from a thirty-year-long patent lawsuit which he eventually won.

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