Antonio Meucci, the American Inventor of the Telephone
On Mon, 11 Jun 2007 20:35:32 -0500, John Boy wrote:
JohnM wrote:
Anybody with reasonable skill any time after the discovery of
ironworking could have drawn exceedingly thin copper wire and insulated
it.
And they did. Look to the telegraph, and earlier to the high-voltage
experiments. Very common stuff.
Hmm.
C.F.Gauss and L. Euler talked about using electrical "chains",
(not wires) for telegraphing, and putting the ends of the chains
into the mouth of the receiving telegrapher, because they
noticed that electricity causes a "taste" sensation on the tongue.
At their times obviously wires were not available yet.
w.
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