Talk:Douglas H. Ring
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[edit] Douglas or Donald?
The Bell Labs engineer who proposed cellular mobile phones in 1947 identified himself as D. H. Ring in his proposal. The present article identifies him as Douglas H. Ring. But an article by Thomas Farley names him Donald H. Ring. So which is it - Douglas or Donald? A Spanish history of mobile phones at http://www.telefonica.es/sociedaddelainformacion/pdf/publicaciones/movilidad/capitulo_2.pdf has the following on page 26 bottom paragraph: "But if there is a significant event in the history of mobile communications, this is the development of the concept of cellular reusability of frequencies. This concept was proposed for the first time in 1947 by an engineer of Bell labs, Douglas H. Ring (see Figure 2-3). Until then, mobile transmissions were made with the maximum power possible to provide an area of extensive coverage."
A Google search using: http://www.google.com/advanced_patent_search for "Bell" as the assignee (company) and "Ring" as the inventor yields several Bell Labs patents, all of which on the first page name "Douglas H. Ring" as the inventor living at Red Bank, New Jersey. One of the Bell Labs divisions was located in Red Bank about 30 miles southeast of the main Bell Labs (Lucent) building in Murray Hill, New Jersey. In the Social Security Death Index, there is only one Douglas H Ring listed. He was living at Red Bank, NJ when he died Sept 8, 2000. Greensburger 16:19, 26 May 2007 (UTC)
