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"the inventor of the world’s most important acoustical device—the telephone" and... no. Bell stole the telephone invention to Meucci.
by _ZeD_ 14y ago
"the inventor of the world’s most important acoustical device—the telephone"
and... no.
Bell stole the telephone invention to Meucci.
- flexie 14y agoWell, at least Antonio Meucci's Globe Telephone Company was sued by the Bell Telephone Company for patent infringement. It was really a messy law suit where one question was whether Meucci had invented the electromagnetic telephone or "just" an acoustic one.
- Stwerp 14y agoWell, the photophone was actually a much cooler device anyway. Experimental wireless transfer of human speech over 200 meters from a completely passive device using optical scattering? In 1880? Sweet! The receiver was active, but transmitter was not at all. Somewhat similar to modern UHF RFID technology. Bell was actually a pretty awesome engineer largely motivated by wanting to help the impaired.