Who invented the telephone?
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- Thread starter Tidgy's Dad
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I can tell you who didn't invent it if that's any use.
Oh dear I hope he is ok
Alexander graham bell. He was Scottish
Well it wasn't me, either.
Lots of us are thinking of him.
Aww lyn! I'm so upset lol
Sorry Kirsty
It was Antonio Meucci (according to google)
There you go! I always thought it was Alexander bell. However being Scottish I'm sure everyone here is keen to keep that going lol
Apparently AM couldn't afford to patent it so AGB pinched his idea and patented it for himself 16 years later than it had been invented.
Hope this is worth a few points especially as my hippos disappeared
Hope this is worth a few points especially as my hippos disappeared
It's what everyone is taught - think Britain in general is keen to claim success stories for itself.
He was indeed Scottish, but he didn't invent the telephone.Alexander graham bell. He was Scottish
It was Antonio Meucci, an Italian associate of Garibaldi who set up the first telephone from his laboratory to an upstairs bedroom in his New York home.
He patented it in 1871 but forgot to mention electomagnetic transmission of vocal sound and couldn't afford to amend it.
When Western union were assessing the patent it fell into the hands of a young Scottish engineer called Alexander Graham Bell.
In 1876 Bell patented it with this mention, but Meucci had already done it.first.
Meucci took him to court but died in 1889 before a judgement was given.
Bell said "One day there will be a telephone in every town in America"
yep.
To be fair it is disputed.
The USA have passed a legal verdict saying Meucci as have Italy.
Canada have done the same for Bell.
Britain hasn't officially declared either way, though most people now reluctantly seem to say Meucci.
Good - give credit where credit's due!
I think you deserve them
It's always what we think we know, what we are taught, like who discovered America,, who first sailed around the world, who discovered Australia, who first showed that the earth goes round the sun etc.
What we think we know is often wrong.
What we think we know is often wrong.
it's fine, you're both getting loadsa points tonight.I think you deserve them
