You'll never guess who made the first wireless telephone

5 comments

• fph 1 hour ago
  Clickbait titles should be changed, as per the guidelines for HN submissions.
• HelloUsername 1 hour ago
  "Antonio Meucci invented the telephone and he got robbed! Everybody knows that!"

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJDNCxMfbLQ
• esafak 1 minute ago
  In more technical terms, Bell used amplitude modulation of audio using light as the carrier wave, and selenium as a photoconductive transducer. Correct me if I'm mistaken...
• andai 25 minutes ago
  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.
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  • esafak 5 minutes ago
    What kind of a signal were you thinking of bouncing off the mirror?
• nephihaha 1 hour ago
  Alexander Graham Bell was a successful inventor and made breakthroughs with helicopters and hydrofoils. Definitely not a one trick pony.
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  • lordleft 1 hour ago
    IIRC, Bell ended up wanting to spend his life after inventing the telephone as a scientist and a researcher, rather than tending to the running of Bell Telephone and AT&T.