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Who Really Invented The Telegraph?
Fat Boy unslim writes "It's been 250 years since the publication of a paper describing the theory behind sending messages down a wire using electricity. Unfortunately, no one knows who wrote it." If you thought the answer was as simple as "Morse," this article may come as a surprise.
it was some punk kid publishing means to bring an end to the world, to them, an early violator of dmca, and should have his/her life destroyed
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Perhaps because it's true. Sorry to disturb your cosy worldview, but the sad fact is not -everything- was invented or discovered in America.
And I'm fast starting to believe that the only thing Americans are any good at these days is stealing other people's ideas and claiming them as their own. Bill Gates is of course the first name that comes to mind; esr's rant ends up with a list of every major 'innovation' from MS, and who it was bought or stolen from. Then there's all the business-method patent companies; Amazon, PanIP, etc.
And then there's the entire issue of the wright brothers, philo farnsworth, etc. Sure the wright brothers were scientific about things, but baboo dick managed some fairly well controlled flights as well as his first less than impressive decent and crash into a ditch.
Sure the CRT was a great step forward, but bard invented the basic syncronised scanning of an image.
The camera part of this has already gone to CCD. The basic scanning concept that bard invented is still used; the beam of electrons that farnsworth invented isn't. So who invented the video camera again?
When most TV's go LCD, are we going to forget farnsworth and credit the inventor of the LCD with inventing "television" ?
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So yes, we have invented everything. Yeah baby!