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jp57 3 hours ago [-]
I think he could have gotten away with naming his daughter Photophone, but he would have to pronounce it as if she were a character from an ancient greek epic: phoTOphoNEE.
HelloUsername 5 hours ago [-]
"Antonio Meucci invented the telephone and he got robbed! Everybody knows that!"
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.
madaxe_again 3 hours ago [-]
Just put an acoustic coupler on the back of a mirror and you’ve done half of the job. Don’t see any reason you couldn’t get modem speeds at the very least.
esafak 4 hours ago [-]
What kind of a signal were you thinking of bouncing off the mirror?
nephihaha 5 hours ago [-]
Alexander Graham Bell was a successful inventor and made breakthroughs with helicopters and hydrofoils. Definitely not a one trick pony.
lordleft 5 hours 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.
bitwize 1 hours ago [-]
I did guess. There was a photophone project in one of those Forrest M. Mims notebooks you could get at Radio Shack, and it mentioned that Bell considered it even more important than the telephone.
esafak 4 hours ago [-]
In more technical terms, Bell used amplitude modulation of audio using light as the carrier wave, and selenium as a photoconductive transducer.
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