Thomas Edison filed 1,093 patents, including those for the light bulb, electric railways and the movie camera. When he died in 1931, he held 34 patents for the telephone, 141 for batteries, 150 for the telegraph and 389 patents for electric light and power.
January 29, 2008
Goalkeeper
Soccer goalkeeper didn’t have to wear different coloured shirts from their teammates until 1913.
Alexander Graham Bell
Alexander Graham Bell never phoned his wife or mother because they were deaf.
When Alexander Graham Bell passed away in 1922, every telephone served by the Bell system in the USA and Canada was silent for one minute.
The first electronic mail, or “email”, was sent in 1972 by Ray Tomlinson. It was also his idea to use the @ sign to separate the name of the user from the name of the computer.
