04-02-2013, 10:41 PM
The short clip, which has attracted over 342,000 views on YouTube, is said to feature a woman named Gertrude Jones who is speaking on a prewar prototype of a mobile phone which was developed by a communications factory in Leominster, Massachusetts.
The video entitled 'Time Traveler in 1938 film,' was first posted online a year ago and was widely reported on by various blogs around the web.
But in recent days a user called 'planetcheck' has come forward, claiming to have solved the mystery.
Planetcheck said: "The lady you see is my great grandmother Gertrude Jones.
"She was 17 years old. I asked her about this video and she remembers it quite clearly. She says Dupont had a telephone communications section in the factory."
They added: "They were experimenting with wireless telephones. Gertrude and five other women were given these wireless phones to test out for a week.
"Gertrude is talking to one of the scientists holding another wireless phone who is off to her right as she walks by."
There has not yet been any independent verication on the claims, but if it is true then it means the footage was shot more than 40 years before the first cell phone, a DynaTAC 8000x, was available.
http://www.express.co.uk/news/science-te...rst-mobile
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0LXq4b4Ous
The video entitled 'Time Traveler in 1938 film,' was first posted online a year ago and was widely reported on by various blogs around the web.
But in recent days a user called 'planetcheck' has come forward, claiming to have solved the mystery.
Planetcheck said: "The lady you see is my great grandmother Gertrude Jones.
"She was 17 years old. I asked her about this video and she remembers it quite clearly. She says Dupont had a telephone communications section in the factory."
They added: "They were experimenting with wireless telephones. Gertrude and five other women were given these wireless phones to test out for a week.
"Gertrude is talking to one of the scientists holding another wireless phone who is off to her right as she walks by."
There has not yet been any independent verication on the claims, but if it is true then it means the footage was shot more than 40 years before the first cell phone, a DynaTAC 8000x, was available.
http://www.express.co.uk/news/science-te...rst-mobile
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0LXq4b4Ous
