Comments on: Happy Birthday, Telephone!

By: Jess

Jess — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 00:22:48 +0000

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!

By: avraamov

avraamov — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 19:26:16 +0000

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…

By: Gdl

Gdl — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 22:31:05 +0000

Bell wasn’t the inventor of the telephone, Meucci is. Everybody but you know this.

By: Matteo

Matteo — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 20:59:20 +0000

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”…
Remember this…
You can always buy your celebrity despite someone else poverty…

By: Nathan Miller

Nathan Miller — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 19:05:11 +0000

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.”

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 17:31:58 +0000

Bet your money that Elisha Gray beat Bell to the patent office.