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W. Rae Young

American inventor

Died when: 92 years 129 days (1108 months)
Star Sign: Scorpio

 

W. Rae Young

William Rae Young, Jr. (October 30, 1915 – March 7, 2008) was one of the Bell Labs engineers that invented the cell phone.The history of cellular phone technology began on December 11, 1947 with a Bell Labs internal memo written by Douglas H.

Ring describing the idea of Rae Young of the hexagonal cell concept for a cellular mobile telephone system.


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