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Sometimes its hard to know what to believe. On the surface, this sounds like a pretty plausible argument that her contributions leading to WiFi is almost entir
by basch 7y ago
Sometimes its hard to know what to believe. On the surface, this sounds like a pretty plausible argument that her contributions leading to WiFi is almost entirely a clickbait invention
https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/a/23755 https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/a/23755
- ghaff 7y agoThere's a tendency to credit some singular person for an invention like TV, the steam engine, etc. The reality is usually a lot messier in that there is usually prior art, variations that didn't work as well, predecessors of various sorts, etc. But we like having a nice simple trivia night answer.
- boshomi 7y agoYes, it was an abstraction of a completely different use case into something never thought before. [1] [1] »Player Pianos, Sex Appeal, and Patent #2,292,387» ELIZA SCHMIDKUNZ 2006/09 (in Inside GNSS) https://web.archive.org/web/20160827181419/http://www.insidegnss.com/node/303 https://web.archive.org/web/20160827181419/http://www.inside...