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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dove" data-source="post: 226418" data-attributes="member: 180552">Thanks for the link, its been years since I've read anything about Tesla.  Tesla was always mentally a little "out there", something that he used to his advantage when deal with complex ideas. As a child he often found it difficult to differenciate  between what his eyes and his minds  eye were seeing ,  sort of like an always on Heads Up display. What separates men like Edison, Marconi and Bell from Tesla is that Edison et al were able to take a basis idea, develop it and successfully commercialize it while Tesla was too in love with chasing science and discovery. Even his deal with George Westinghouse did not go well as Westinghouse ran into finnancial difficulties and was not able to fully honour the terms of the agreement.    [SIZE=+0]So  who invented the telephone?   Here is a quote from wikipedia:[/SIZE]Alexander Graham Bell (March 3, 1847 – August 2, 1922) was a Scottish-born scientist and inventor. Today, Bell is still widely considered to be the foremost inventor of the telephone, although this matter has become controversial, with a number of people claiming that Antonio Meucci was the "real" inventor (in June 2002, the United States House of Representatives passed a symbolic bill officially recognizing Meucci for his contributions to the invention of the telephone). Others advance Elisha Gray, the founder of the Western Electric Manufacturing Company. (It is reasonably clear that each of these men independently invented a telephone.) In addition to Bell's work in telecommunications technology, he was responsible for important advances in aviation and hydrofoil technology.hxxp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Graham_Bell or a slightly different view here hxxp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqVYsObVn-g Elisha Gray and Bell submitted patents for telephone systems to the patent office around the same time. It was going to be winner takes all. Bell 's  application was just ahead of Gray's. Gray returned empty handed to his farm and faded into the mist of history. Maybe somebody looked at Bell's application and saw how revisions scribbled in the margins were remarkably similar to Grays system, either way Bell was granted the patent. Years later on his death bed the patent clerk who handled the patent applications confessed that he accepted a bribe from Bell. It appears that Gray was first in with the application and with a better system and that Bell's was altered after submission! PS Marconi's 1901 link across the Atlantic  (mentioned in spiney's url above)  is described by RF propagation experts as very unlikely to have been successful. </blockquote>

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