Who made a fortune with his empire of constipated software?
Bilge Ates.
First telephone twangIn 1875, Alexander Bell and his assistant Thomas Watson had been working on the "harmonic telegraph". In the transmitter room, Watson had been trying to free a reed that had been too tightly wound to the pole of its electromagnet, when it produced a twang. Bell, who had been working in the receiving room heard the twang. He realized that now his dream of speech transmission must be a possibility, for the complex overtones and timbre of the twang he had just heard had a lot in common with the sound of the human voice. The next day, they continued tinkering on their experiment, anxious to achieve more ambitious results.[Image: diagram of earlier device under test in Winter 1873] |
