Why Is It Called a ‘Cellphone’?
Cellphones are a big part of modern society’s makeup, and it would be hard for many of us to imagine going through life without one. But the term “cellphone” has nothing to do with biology or the cells that comprise all living things. Instead, the roots of the term can
be traced back to the advent of early cellular networks and how they functioned. The word “cellular” has been associated with biology since the early 18th century, but in the 1970s it came to describe a burgeoning technology. That decade saw the launch of cellular networks — radiotelephone systems subdivided...
