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Bell Dethroned as Telephone Inventor
On Hold writes "The US Congress has decided that A. G. Bell was not the real inventor of the telephone. According to this article, it was invented by a Florentine immigrant called Meucci. Meucci later worked with Bell in a lab, but couldn't afford the patent fees. It seems like Bell could." Wait until you read the stories giving Shawn Fanning credit for inventing P2P...
Here in Italy it's always been well known that Meucci invented telephone! ;-)
Ok, there's also always been the doubt, too, whether it's been him or Bell, but surely nobody thought it was Bell all on his own
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The real inventors of things often never get credit. Nikola Tesla invented radio before Marconi. Weed Eater was invented by a backyard tinkerer who got nothing. Edison took credit for things invented by others who were working for him, and bashed Nikola Tesla, making most people think he was nuts. It does not suprise me at all that Bell took credit for someone else's work.
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I think you mean Phillipp Reis who made a public display of his telephone in october 1861 (BTW, it worked!). He died in the age of 40 two years before Bell filed in his patent and managed to get his prototype working.
And the other guy you mentioned was Elisha Gray. In the patent fight with Bell Gray used Phillipp Reis' invention for his defence ("prior art") but that hasn't helped him - Bell won.
Here's a quote from Vincent Cerf (Yeah, that Vincent Cerf, the one that 'surfing' the internet comes from.) and Robert Kahn (You know, the guy who invented TCP/IP.)
'The fact of the matter is that Gore was talking about and promoting the Internet long before most people were listening. We feel it is timely to offer our perspective. As far back as the 1970s Congressman Gore promoted the idea of high speed telecommunications as an engine for both economic growth and the improvement of our educational system. He was the first elected official to grasp the potential of computer communications to have a broader impact than just improving the conduct of science and scholarship.'
Yes, those are the fucking fathers of the internet collaberating Gore's 'lie'. If Vicent Cerf and Robert Kahn say someone helped create the internet, I'll believe it.
As for the union song, people laughed. It was a joke, period. People don't remember songs sung to them in the craddle, it was a throwaway line. Gore grew up in a very pro-union house, and was making a joke about.
But the real kicker is why the fuck would he 'lie' about that? Let's guess which is more plausible: He was making a joke about the pro-union feeling in his house, or he decided to make a completely unbelivable lie, because people can't even remember things in the cradle, and everyone knows that, for no appearent benefit?
Geez, if he walks in with a line 'I just flew here from Washington, and boy are my arms tired!', will people start nitpicking that he just had a nap on the plane and thus his arms can't be tired?
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