Star Trek (1966-1969)

Star Trek inspired a generation of young people to take up science. Fifty years later, we had the flip phone because of Star Trek's communicators. Motorola engineer Martin Cooper, inspired by watching Captain Kirk using his communicator, developed the first handheld mobile phone in 1973. Later, in 1996, when Motorola released the first ever flip phone, it was aptly named the Startac.