jukido
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 Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2011 5:21 am Post subject: The telephone was successfully demonstrated in 1876 |
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The telephone was successfully demonstrated in 1876, two years before Sir William Preece, then chief engineer of the British Post Office, gave his opinion about the invention.
"The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys," he said.
And he was not the only one to have reservations about it.
In an internal memo at Western Union around the time the patent was granted, the subject of the new device did not cause any great concern at the telegram company.
"This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us," it read.
Despite former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan's quote from 1999 when he said that "half the world's people have never made or received a telephone call" - a line that is often disputed - the telephone is used by billions of people and has made instant, remote communication a reality.
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