French Inventions (answers)

Steven P. McNicoll wrote:
"Greg Farris" wrote in message
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BONUS QUESTION:
What nationality can legitimately claim Radio broadcasting, the Internal
Combustion Engine, and the Telephone? (ITALY)


Bell was a Scot.

No ... Alexander Graham Bell was a Canadian. He came to Canada at the
age of 23. The first practical, long distance telephone call was made
on August 10, 1876, by the then 29-year-old Alexander Graham Bell from
downtown Brantford, Ontario to his assistant in Paris, Ontario, a
distance of about 10 miles.

PPL-A (Canada)

"PPL-A (Canada)" wrote in message
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No ... Alexander Graham Bell was a Canadian. He came to Canada at the
age of 23. The first practical, long distance telephone call was made
on August 10, 1876, by the then 29-year-old Alexander Graham Bell from
downtown Brantford, Ontario to his assistant in Paris, Ontario, a
distance of about 10 miles.

PPL-A (Canada)


Sorry to burst your bubble, but Bell was never a Canadian citizen. He was
born in Scotland, immigrated to Canada in 1870 and to the U.S. in 1871, and
became a naturalized American citizen in 1882.

"James Robinson" wrote in message
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Greg Farris wrote:

BONUS QUESTION:
What nationality can legitimately claim Radio broadcasting, the
Internal Combustion Engine, and the Telephone? (ITALY)

These inventions were in development by many people, and some may have
built on ideas from others.

The light bulb is a good example. Edison is credited by many, but in
looking at the issue in more detail, you will find that he bought a
patent from a Canadian inventor, who had the essential idea, and was
perhaps 90 percent of the way to a practical product. Edison then
perfected the filament and gas in the container. So who was the inventor?
The one with the original idea, or the one who finally made a saleable
product?


Some sources indicate that Nernst got his light bulb into production before
Edison.

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"PPL-A (Canada)" wrote in message
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Steven P. McNicoll wrote:
"Greg Farris" wrote in message
...

BONUS QUESTION:
What nationality can legitimately claim Radio broadcasting, the
Internal
Combustion Engine, and the Telephone? (ITALY)


Bell was a Scot.

No ... Alexander Graham Bell was a Canadian. He came to Canada at the
age of 23. The first practical, long distance telephone call was made
on August 10, 1876, by the then 29-year-old Alexander Graham Bell from
downtown Brantford, Ontario to his assistant in Paris, Ontario, a
distance of about 10 miles.

PPL-A (Canada)

Ethnically he was a Scot and always will be. whether he was in Canada or
Scotland he was still a subject of the Crown until he became an American
citizen. Even then he was still a Scot. That heritage is important. Try
being in Edinburgh in the summer where there seem to be millions of N
Americans trying to find their Scottish roots, all wearing silly tartan
hats.

The light bulb is a good example. Edison is credited by many, but in
looking at the issue in more detail, you will find that he bought a
patent from a Canadian inventor, who had the essential idea, and was
perhaps 90 percent of the way to a practical product. Edison then
perfected the filament and gas in the container. So who was the inventor?


"If I have seen further it is by standing on ye shoulders of Giants."

(Isaac Newton in a letter to Robert Hooke, 1676)

Stefan

"Chris" wrote in message
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Ethnically he was a Scot and always will be. whether he was in Canada or
Scotland he was still a subject of the Crown until he became an American
citizen. Even then he was still a Scot. That heritage is important. Try
being in Edinburgh in the summer where there seem to be millions of N
Americans trying to find their Scottish roots, all wearing silly tartan
hats.

Bell wasn't in Canada or Scotland. He did move to Canada from Scotland in
1870, but he moved to the US the following year. His work on the telephone
took place in Boston.

While Marconi believed code was transmitted through
ether, and marketed point-to-point communication, Fessenden understood
radio waves, and developed the first transmitter for voice.

Not so, Marconi fully understood the significance of waves
"When Heinrich Hertz, who discovered wireless waves, died in 1894, Righi
wrote an obituary that fired Marconi with the idea of deploying these waves
for 'wire-less' telegraphy. "So elementary, so simple in logic," he said
later. "

http://www.marconicalling.com/marconioverview/life.html

"John Gaquin" wrote in
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"Jim Logajan" wrote in message

Do you have documentable credibility in this area, or is this yet
another area of speculation, based upon your nuclear powered flight
simulator?

Mxsmanic is essentially correct.

Irrelevant to the question.

You're making a logical mistake known as the "appeal to authority."

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

On one hand, people take on blind faith the word of a person
who holds credentials. Just because a person has a lot of
credentials doesn't mean they can't be wrong.

On the other hand is the person with no credentials. The fact
that they have no credentials doesn't mean they can't be right.

Brian
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