Hello? U.S. claims Canada's greatest invention

Nic Name · 06-20-2002, 08:42 PM

Congress awards creation of telephone to Italian inventor living in New York

In a pronouncement that has surprised generations of schoolchildren and wounded Canadian pride, the U.S. House of Representatives has passed a resolution saying Alexander Graham Bell wasn't the person who invented the telephone.

Hello?

MaggieL · 06-20-2002, 09:45 PM

Well, the only problem with the headline is...

<blockquote>Antonio Meucci's invention of the first electronic technology for transmitting voice occurred in 1849 in Havana, Cuba, where he lived from 1835-1850. In 1998 the Sociedad Cubana de Historia de la Ciencia y la Tecnologia published a booklet on "Los Días Cubanos de Antonio Meucci y el Nacimiento de la Telefonia".
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russotto · 06-24-2002, 02:02 PM

Thomas Edison also filed a patent for a telephone, IIRC, but was beaten by Graham Bell.

06-20-2002, 08:42 PM	#1
Nic Name retired Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Toronto, Canada Posts: 1,930	Hello? U.S. claims Canada's greatest invention Congress awards creation of telephone to Italian inventor living in New York In a pronouncement that has surprised generations of schoolchildren and wounded Canadian pride, the U.S. House of Representatives has passed a resolution saying Alexander Graham Bell wasn't the person who invented the telephone. Hello?

06-20-2002, 09:45 PM	#2
MaggieL in the Hour of Scampering Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Jeffersonville PA (15 mi NW of Philadelphia) Posts: 4,060	Well, the only problem with the headline is... <blockquote>Antonio Meucci's invention of the first electronic technology for transmitting voice occurred in 1849 in Havana, Cuba, where he lived from 1835-1850. In 1998 the Sociedad Cubana de Historia de la Ciencia y la Tecnologia published a booklet on "Los Días Cubanos de Antonio Meucci y el Nacimiento de la Telefonia". </blockquote> __________________ "Neither can his Mind be thought to be in Tune,whose words do jarre; nor his reason In frame, whose sentence is preposterous..."

06-24-2002, 02:02 PM	#3
russotto Professor Join Date: Jan 2001 Posts: 1,788	Thomas Edison also filed a patent for a telephone, IIRC, but was beaten by Graham Bell.

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