Motorola BPR2000 Pager
date: label: date made
content: 1982
name: label: maker
content: Motorola Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: Motorola produced this BPR 2000 model pager around 1982. Prior to the widespread availability of inexpensive cell phones many people carried telephone pagers to stay in contact with work or home. A miniature radio receiver, a pager alerted the user that someone needed to talk to them and provided the call-back number. The BPR 2000 featured a dual address and numerical display to also show the user the source of an incoming call. Later alphanumeric pagers could communicate messages to the user. Pager use declined as cell phone coverage expanded across the U.S.
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content: Work and Industry: Electricity
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content: Communications
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content: American Enterprise
label: Exhibition
content: American Enterprise
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: from the Motorola Museum
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1997.0246.05
label: catalog number
content: 1997.0246.05
label: accession number
content: 1997.0246
objectType: label: Object Name
content: pager
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 3/4 in x 2 3/8 in x 1 3/8 in; 6.985 cm x 6.0325 cm x 3.4925 cm