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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.
Probably Marconi.
He invented damn near everything else, only to have it stolen from him by Thomas Edison, etc.
Kind of like how Microsoft steals from Open Source these days, I guess.
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Please can we remove the light bulb from Eddison (he was a thief of ideas, but that's a whole different story).
Oh and that iniak thing, not the first electronic computer.
Mass production, not mr Fraud, but the printing press.
Froid was the first to look into the pathology of psychology, but he was on crack (well coke).
Anything else,
Oh the wheel, I hear some guy in AUS patented the wheel.
And the plane, that was a Kiwi.
Spinning pool of mercury to make a mirror for teliscopes, I invented that when I was a kid.
Spelling, that was invented by a freak tooo, wouldn't want to infringe on his IP.
It wasn't an American. That's becuase in today's politically correct world, NOBODY from American EVER invented anything. It was all the Europeans and New Zealenders. Yeah, that's the ticket. Bamboo Dick invented the airplane. Tesla was smarter than Edison, therefore Edison's achivements are all worthless. Blah blah.
Come on... this is at least flamebait, not offtopic. :)
Who invented the telegraph: Who cares?
where an American (Morse) gets credit for the work of another person. Just like Christopher Columbus wasn't the first to discover the new world. In reality, the new world was discovered by a Greek from the Island of Chios.
Honestly... who cares?