Comments on: Who really invented telephone? https://www.epanorama.net/blog/2012/06/12/tho-really-invented-telephone/ All about electronics and circuit design Sat, 11 Apr 2026 11:35:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.14 By: Tomi Engdahl https://www.epanorama.net/blog/2012/06/12/tho-really-invented-telephone/comment-page-1/#comment-1813551 Fri, 15 Sep 2023 11:33:52 +0000 http://www.epanorama.net/blog/?p=11935#comment-1813551 Telephone Circuits
http://techlib.com/electronics/telephone.html

]]> By: Tomi Engdahl https://www.epanorama.net/blog/2012/06/12/tho-really-invented-telephone/comment-page-1/#comment-1556692 Fri, 28 Jul 2017 13:31:28 +0000 http://www.epanorama.net/blog/?p=11935#comment-1556692 Rotary Phones and the Birth of a Network
http://hackaday.com/2017/07/26/rotary-phones-and-the-birth-of-a-network/

]]> By: Tomi Engdahl https://www.epanorama.net/blog/2012/06/12/tho-really-invented-telephone/comment-page-1/#comment-23861 Mon, 18 Jun 2012 08:29:34 +0000 http://www.epanorama.net/blog/?p=11935#comment-23861 Forget Edison: This is How History’s Greatest Inventions Really Happened
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/06/forget-edison-this-is-how-historys-greatest-inventions-really-happened/258525/

The myth of the solitary inventor — in 8 short stories

The world’s most famous inventors are household names. As we all know, Thomas Edison invented the light bulb, Alexander Graham Bell invented the phone, and Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin.

Except they didn’t. The ideas didn’t spring, Athena-like, fully formed from their brains. In fact, they didn’t spring fully formed from anybody’s brains. That is the myth of the lonely inventor and the eureka moment.

“Simultaneous invention and incremental improvement are the way innovation works, even for radical inventions,”

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