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6 comments to "Happy Birthday, Telephone!"
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Mark
March 10th, 2008 at
12:31 pm
Bet your money that Elisha Gray beat Bell to the patent office.
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Nathan Miller
March 10th, 2008 at
2:05 pm
I once read (but I can’t for the life of me find where) that Antonio Meucci was recently posthumously awarded the US Patent for the telephone, revoking it from AGB. Canada then passed a law recognizing AGB as the “only inventor of the telephone.”
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Matteo
March 10th, 2008 at
3:59 pm
That’s quite ridicolous. You should give a look to wikipedia at Meucci. He was the real one who invented the telephone, Bell was just a lamer and “if Meucci had been able to pay the $10 fee to maintain the caveat after 1874, no patent could have been issued to Bell”…
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Gdl
March 10th, 2008 at
5:31 pm
Bell wasn’t the inventor of the telephone, Meucci is. Everybody but you know this.
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avraamov
March 11th, 2008 at
2:26 pm
it’s often the case that no one person invents something. the ‘big man’ theory of history, patents (which, by the way everybody are a COMMERCIAL concern, not scientific), and peoples’ desire for simplicity all feed into this. the wiki on meucci is contradictory, saying that both he and bell were either fraudulent, or first… as the wiki on ‘invention of the telephone says: ‘The modern telephone is the result of work done by many people, all worthy of recognition of their contributions to the field.’. it’s the same with television, the lightbulb, cinema, radio, electricity…
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Jess
March 11th, 2008 at
7:22 pm
Well if Bell really was the first to use a telephone then I share the same birthday as the telephone. I was born 110 years after the 10th of March, 1876. Woo!
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