Comments on: The Bell Patents http://techliberation.com/2008/01/23/the-bell-patents/ Keeping politicians' hands off the Net & everything else related to technology Sun, 27 May 2012 07:12:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Robert Cannon http://techliberation.com/2008/01/23/the-bell-patents/comment-page-1/#comment-40472 Robert Cannon Thu, 24 Jan 2008 14:26:18 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2008/01/23/the-bell-patents/#comment-40472 <p>No no no. Not far enough back. Elisha Gray may be colorful. After all, he did teach at Oberlin. But you have to look FURTHER back. Can you say "Antonio Meucci" http://www.cybertelecom.org/notes/telephone.htm Funny thing. Meucci got ill and had to abandon his lab and his working models. And then Western Union said those models went missing. And then Mr. Bell started working on his invention - according to the story - in the same lab that Meucci had used.</p> <p>Meucci was too poor to patent his work. So he filed a Caveat way before Bell, according to the stories. And according to a US Congress resolution, had Meucci been able to cough up the $10 to renew his Caveat, there never would have been a Bell patent.</p> No no no. Not far enough back. Elisha Gray may be colorful. After all, he did teach at Oberlin. But you have to look FURTHER back. Can you say “Antonio Meucci” http://www.cybertelecom.org/notes/telephone.htm Funny thing. Meucci got ill and had to abandon his lab and his working models. And then Western Union said those models went missing. And then Mr. Bell started working on his invention – according to the story – in the same lab that Meucci had used.

Meucci was too poor to patent his work. So he filed a Caveat way before Bell, according to the stories. And according to a US Congress resolution, had Meucci been able to cough up the $10 to renew his Caveat, there never would have been a Bell patent.

]]> By: Robert Cannon http://techliberation.com/2008/01/23/the-bell-patents/comment-page-1/#comment-45839 Robert Cannon Thu, 24 Jan 2008 14:26:18 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2008/01/23/the-bell-patents/#comment-45839 <p>No no no. Not far enough back. Elisha Gray may be colorful. After all, he did teach at Oberlin. But you have to look FURTHER back. Can you say "Antonio Meucci" <a href="http://www.cybertelecom.org/notes/telephone.htm">http://www.cybertelecom.org/notes/telephone.htm</a> Funny thing. Meucci got ill and had to abandon his lab and his working models. And then Western Union said those models went missing. And then Mr. Bell started working on his invention - according to the story - in the same lab that Meucci had used.<br><br>Meucci was too poor to patent his work. So he filed a Caveat way before Bell, according to the stories. And according to a US Congress resolution, had Meucci been able to cough up the $10 to renew his Caveat, there never would have been a Bell patent.</p> No no no. Not far enough back. Elisha Gray may be colorful. After all, he did teach at Oberlin. But you have to look FURTHER back. Can you say “Antonio Meucci” http://www.cybertelecom.org/notes/telephone.htm Funny thing. Meucci got ill and had to abandon his lab and his working models. And then Western Union said those models went missing. And then Mr. Bell started working on his invention – according to the story – in the same lab that Meucci had used.

Meucci was too poor to patent his work. So he filed a Caveat way before Bell, according to the stories. And according to a US Congress resolution, had Meucci been able to cough up the $10 to renew his Caveat, there never would have been a Bell patent.

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