[Phys-L] Re: Why 60 hertz?

[Brian Whatcott <betwys1@SBCGLOBAL.NET>]

At 08:01 AM 3/26/2005, you wrote:
> >  Bell did not invent
> > the telephone.
>
> There is a mountain of evidence proving that Bell did, indeed, invent the
> telephone. Granted, other people were working on similar (and
> unsuccessful)ideas, but Bell was the first to successfully invent the
> telephone. Bell faced many lawsuits from other so-called 'inventors' of
> the telephone, yet they were never able to explain the theory and the
> process of invention, as Bell was able to do.
>
> Alison Innes
> Education Coordinator
> Bell Homestead National Historic Site


  Dating Volta's pile to the turn of the century, the wet cell
  less than a generation later [though it was 1861 before
Leclanche' came up with his cell], and Faraday's
researches to 1831 onwards, and supposing a 25 year
latency to market, there was a window of perhaps 25 years for
the wire telegraph to spark the idea for self-powered or cell-powered
phones  until Elisha Gray and Alexander Bell raced their patent
applications to the Patent office on the same day (!).
Before the telegraph, there was the tube and horn,
and there were cans and strings, one might suppose.



Brian Whatcott    Altus OK    Eureka!
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