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Wednesday 15 August 2018

Quotes Aug 16

I do not think that the wireless waves I have discovered will have any practical application.
Heinrich Rudolf Hertz (1857-94), discoverer of radio wave propagation.

This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us. Western Union internal memo, 1876.

The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.
Sir William Preece, chief engineer of the British Post Office, 1876

An amazing invention - but who would ever want to use one?
US President Rutherford B. Hayes makes a call from Washington to Pennsylvania with Alexander Graham Bell's telephone, patented on 7 March 1876

Good enough for our transatlantic friends ... but unworthy of the attentions of practical or scientific men.
British Parliamentary Committee on Thomas Edison's electric lamp, patented in the USA on 27 January 1879.

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