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In that timespan, the U.S. [...] invented the telephone

Really?

DARPA invented the Internet. History of the light buib can be found here Karl Benz of Germany invented the first motor car. Antonio Meucci invented the telephone.

What makes this patent different from all the other false patents? Oh yeah, right, there was one-click ordering before Amazon.com first came online, etc. Apparently liars can file a patent before the originatior of the idea does and then sue them for it.

Alexander Gram Bell invented the telephone, right? Wrong! There was one invented before Bell did and another one. Many people still credit Bell for the invention of the telephone. IP Theives apparently can cash in on patents if they can file them quick enough.

Blind man can see thanks to a camera implanted in his brain
I thought I read somewhere they're unable to understand the processes in the brain,
but can reproduce the Outcome of the electronical / neurological process by chips in hopes to once understand how *that gray matter* actually works.
Neurochips detect brain's reaction to learning

Not quite. See here.

We "assume" our observations are true because, quite simply, they are evidence.

Thank you, Captain Tautology.

Okay. You've pointed me to a joke page on Angelfire. That page, incidentally, is pretending to refute mathematical induction, which is (counterintuitively) totally deductive, not logical induction.

In response, I point you to Bertrand Russell's "On Induction".

As long as we've devolved into ad hominem attacks: your attitude is the same as fundamentalists. "I'm right because I'M RIGHT DAMMIT."

The telephone was invented by Antonio Meucci not by Grey or Bell. He was simply to poor to patent his invention.

Actually neither Bell or Grey is the inventor of the telephone.
Meucci - invention of the telephone

...for example, Bell beat Edison and others to the invention of the telephone by a short time...

Great choice for an example: Bell wasn't the first to invent the telephone, and the case ended up in court.

I do think the telephone and the lightbulb are from American inventors (though I'm sure very country on the planet wants to claim that it had some local hobbyist made one in his basement decades earlier)

In fact, telephone was invented by Antonio Meucci (italian/american), although re-patented (if not illegally, in a morally questionable fashion) by Bell: here and here.

I do think the telephone and the lightbulb are from American inventors (though I'm sure very country on the planet wants to claim that it had some local hobbyist made one in his basement decades earlier)

In fact, telephone was invented by Antonio Meucci (italian/american), although re-patented (if not illegally, in a morally questionable fashion) by Bell: here and here.

Many of our most respected inventions, such as the telephone... ...were invented by immigrant Canadians.

Sorry - that was invented by an Italian. Bell just stole his patent.

Whereas Meucci later learned that the Western Union affil-iate laboratory reportedly lost his working models, and Meucci, who at this point was living on public assistance, was unable to renew the caveat after 1874;

Whereas in March 1876, Alexander Graham Bell, who conducted experiments in the same laboratory where Meucci's materials had been stored, was granted a patent and was thereafter credited with inventing the telephone;

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D'oh! Screwup up on the copy and paste:
Meucci NOT Marconni in my last msg

"On the past June 15th, 2002, the US Congress officially recognized that the italian inventor Antonio Meucci is to be credited for the invention of the telephone, and not Alexander G. Bell, as so far claimed."
http://www.popular-science.net/history/meucci_bell .html