Irving Al Gross was a pioneer in mobile wireless communication who lived from 1918 to 2000. He created and patented many communications devices, specifically in relation to an early version of the walkie-talkie, Citizens Band radio, the telephone pager and the cordless telephone. He was born in Toronto, Ontario, the son of Romanian-Jewish immigrants, and grew up in Cleveland, Ohio. At sixteen he earned his amateur radio license, and in 1936 he entered the electrical engineering program at Cleveland's Case School of Applied Science.
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Irving "Al" Gross (; February 22, 1918, December 21, 2000) was a pioneer in mobile wireless communication.
Walkie-talkie (Wikipedia)
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Its development during the Second World War has been variously credited to Donald Hings, radio engineer Alfred J. Gross, and to Henryk Magnuski and engineering teams at Motorola.
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The first telephone pager system was patented in 1949 by Al Gross.
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