ignorance about the truth

messymiss
By messymiss

i don't know why but many educated people feel proud of themselves for the mere knowledge of the inventor of telephone-Alexander Graham Bell. Their feeling would have been rightfully justifiable but only if it were true!
In Fact in 2002, Washington Dc passed a resolution recognizing the real inventor of telephone: Antonio Meucci.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Meucci

By GodFather.• 7 Oct 2009 22:43
GodFather.

Went for the coffee meet/quiz with Smokey and co and they asked a question who invented the telephone I said it was Mr A Bell.. He said I was incorrect.

He mentioned a name of some indian bloke the same guy who invented Chess..:)

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HE WHO DARES WINS

By GodFather.• 7 Oct 2009 22:41
GodFather.

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HE WHO DARES WINS

By britexpat• 7 Oct 2009 22:39
britexpat

Have you ever seen an Italian nativity scene?

It has Jesus, Mary, and three wise guys.

By GodFather.• 7 Oct 2009 22:18
GodFather.

Was this inventor also stripped of his immuinty like the Italian PM..

Can help lauging..So I will also say pay peanuts and you get monkeys..

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HE WHO DARES WINS

By Stone Cold• 7 Oct 2009 22:13
Stone Cold

Pay coconuts & you get baboons.

AGB is the one.

By Maimoona Rahman• 7 Oct 2009 22:08
Maimoona Rahman

Oh and Bell had cheated Meucci when the latter had submitted his prototype and designs. Bell stole and patented it.

NUCLEAR ENERGY: IF AMERICA AND ISRAEL CAN HAVE THEM - THEN SO SHOULD IRAN.

IGNORE JACKFROST

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By Maimoona Rahman• 7 Oct 2009 22:03
Maimoona Rahman

pringles_88, Italy had to work very hard for Antonio Meucci's posthumous recognition, because the super power was simply reluctant to degrade the former vice-president of American telegraph!

messymiss's signature is good, that's why it's attracting so much attention.

How about, pay cheese and you get mice???

NUCLEAR ENERGY: IF AMERICA AND ISRAEL CAN HAVE THEM - THEN SO SHOULD IRAN.

IGNORE JACKFROST

"Recession is when your neighbour loses their job; depression is when you lose your job."

By messymiss• 7 Oct 2009 20:36
messymiss

to pringles_88:

not going to change my signature.....look at how many ppl r followin me...:P

Pay peanuts & you get Monkeys

By britexpat• 7 Oct 2009 20:27
britexpat

There is a theory that if you put 10 monkeys in a room and keep feeding them peanuts, eventually they'll invent the telephone!

By anonymous• 7 Oct 2009 20:22
anonymous

Pay peanuts & you get Monkeys

By Dracula• 7 Oct 2009 20:20
Dracula

Pay peanuts & you get Monkeys

By britexpat• 7 Oct 2009 20:18
britexpat

Pay peanuts & you get Monkeys

By anonymous• 7 Oct 2009 19:57
anonymous

The basic light bulb was invented by others before Thomas Alva Edison, he found a longer lasting filament, still only he gets credited with the invention. Plenty of similar stories.

By Dracula• 7 Oct 2009 19:52
Dracula

double post:

Pay more peanuts & you get more Monkeys

By Olive• 7 Oct 2009 19:52
Olive

And the person who actually came up with the theory of evolution was one of Darwin's friends who came up with the theory in the grips of malaria in Africa. At the end of the day though it was Darwin who published it and expanded on it.

By Dracula• 7 Oct 2009 19:50
Dracula

Pay peanuts & you get Monkeys

By pringles_88• 7 Oct 2009 19:47
pringles_88

Ye..aaa- see I told you to chnage your signature line

a. it's senseless

b. it's distractive

c. um ... no one really read the graham whats-his-face thingy you wrote up there

:P

ok jokes apart- Graham bell's mom became deaf and he made lots of effort out of love for his mother to invent something that aided her in hearing him ...

so shush - he was awesome ..

and hey just because US passed a resolution by yapping on a table, having debates on who invented the phone doesnt mean it has to be changed - he's still the inventor of telephone to me because my favorite 5th grade teacher said so... and I'll not simply just "take it" from someone - just because they're a super power

*Peace*---

By anonymous• 6 Oct 2009 21:46
anonymous

No need to study it, brit. You practise it everyday. You can't fly, can't you? You are attracted by (for example) Chinese dolls. You type on your keyboard and your words appear on my screen. And, if you really have a serious question I am willing to try to answer it for you. Cheers.

By britexpat• 6 Oct 2009 21:41
britexpat

cool.. I wish I had studied Physics more :O)

By anonymous• 6 Oct 2009 21:38
anonymous

Yes, brit.

By britexpat• 6 Oct 2009 21:35
britexpat

If gravity did not exist, then would we be able to have electromagnetic forces ?

By DaRuDe• 6 Oct 2009 21:34
DaRuDe

and get a pretty

now that should be a new sign

By anonymous• 6 Oct 2009 21:26
anonymous

That would not be quite correct, brit. Electromagnetic waves are not really influenced by gravitation, because the intermediate carrier of the electromagnetic force, the photon, does not have a mass.

By Dracula• 6 Oct 2009 21:00
Dracula

Pay peanuts & you get Monkeys

By britexpat• 6 Oct 2009 20:57
britexpat

At this rate we'll be able to say that without the Earth's gravitational pull, telephony would not be possible.. :O)

By anonymous• 6 Oct 2009 20:50
anonymous

Without Maxwell's (Scottish) field equations none of the above would have worked!!

By britexpat• 6 Oct 2009 20:47
britexpat

Elisha Gray was the real inventor of the working telephone.

By anonymous• 6 Oct 2009 20:42
anonymous

Then I would like to add Reiss, also.

By Lion_King• 6 Oct 2009 19:56
Lion_King

I do not concur with the resolution.... Thumbs up for AGB.

By britexpat• 6 Oct 2009 19:46
britexpat

I prefer to stick with Alexander... I can't be bothered to say "Give me a Meucci"

By messymiss• 6 Oct 2009 19:24
messymiss

marconni invented radio rite?...how is he even related?

Pay peanuts & you get Monkeys

By anonymous• 6 Oct 2009 19:14
anonymous

I would say Marconi invented the telephone.

By one_shot• 6 Oct 2009 19:13
one_shot

mmm, i will think about that when i am trying to solve my huge problems

but nice to mention this , thanks anyway

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It could be a medicine

it could be a bullet

depends on how you see it"

By DaRuDe• 6 Oct 2009 18:57
DaRuDe

ah ok you are a nutless human a FEMALE :D

By britexpat• 6 Oct 2009 18:55
britexpat

Pay peanuts & you get Monkeys

By messymiss• 6 Oct 2009 18:54
messymiss

ok another source for the story:http://www.italianhistorical.org/page42.html

never got kicked in the nuts!!!!!!!!:P

Pay peanuts & you get Monkeys

By anonymous• 6 Oct 2009 18:44
anonymous

life's a bitch what can I say

By DaRuDe• 6 Oct 2009 18:43
Rating: 2/5
DaRuDe

You are an example

pay peanuts and get kicked in the nuts after catching the monkey

By wacky_baby• 6 Oct 2009 18:42
wacky_baby

yeah...maybe they payed them peanuts to announce who discovered who and what lol

but then the telephone is one of the world's best discovery so kudos to whoever invented it first...pure genius

By marycatherine• 6 Oct 2009 18:41
marycatherine

And Wikipedia is the font of all knowledge. I'm not saying the info about AGB is wrong, but I can post anything to Wikipedia tonight and thousands will access it (and believe it) because "it's on the internet"

Signature line > "You can't fix stupid"

By britexpat• 6 Oct 2009 18:35
britexpat

Pay peanuts & you get Monkeys

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