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You'll never guess who made the first wireless telephone

You'll never guess who made the first wireless telephone

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Comments (11)

  • fph
    Clickbait titles should be changed, as per the guidelines for HN submissions.
  • jp57
    I think he could have gotten away with naming his daughter Photophone, but he would have to pronounce it as if she were a character from an ancient greek epic: phoTOphoNEE.
  • HelloUsername
    "Antonio Meucci invented the telephone and he got robbed! Everybody knows that!"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJDNCxMfbLQ
  • andai
    As a kid I had this idea of using mirrors for wireless communication. I've never heard of this one before but it makes me very happy! I was thinking of using it for like, torrents or something though.
  • bitwize
    I did guess. There was a photophone project in one of those Forrest M. Mims notebooks you could get at Radio Shack, and it mentioned that Bell considered it even more important than the telephone.
  • nephihaha
    Alexander Graham Bell was a successful inventor and made breakthroughs with helicopters and hydrofoils. Definitely not a one trick pony.
  • esafak
    In more technical terms, Bell used amplitude modulation of audio using light as the carrier wave, and selenium as a photoconductive transducer.