• FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io
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    6 days ago

    So should we give credit to people like Marconi and Tesla for inventing what we know today as the cell phone? I suppose the delineation isn’t necessarily so clear.

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      6 days ago

      So should we give credit to people like Marconi and Tesla for inventing what we know today as the cell phone?

      For the telephone, certainly. And for a host of other radio-based technology. You should probably include Michael Faraday and James Maxwell.

      But Kupriyanovich holds the patent on wireless telephones, specifically.