Pacific Meucci
skinny_italian_dude: I found out today that an Italian invented the telephone, but got shafted on the credits
1BuffFlip: Major
1BuffFlip: A Filipino invented the flourescent light
skinny_italian_dude: Thats a good one
1BuffFlip: Every bldg. has a phone and flourescent light
1BuffFlip: In fact every bldg. has a filipino or italian in it
skinny_italian_dude: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Meucci
skinny_italian_dude: "if Meucci had been able to pay the $10 fee to maintain the caveat after 1874, no patent could have been issued to Bell"
skinny_italian_dude: ...and Meucci would have been considered the inventor of the telephone
1BuffFlip: He got fucked
1BuffFlip: It would've been Pacific Meucci instead of Pacific Bell
skinny_italian_dude: It's okay, cause the Italian encyclopedia still lists him as the inventor
skinny_italian_dude: He invented that shit 2 years before Bell
skinny_italian_dude: United States House of Representatives in its resolutions HRES 269 IH dated October 17th 2001 and HRES 269 EH dated June 11th 2002 resolved that the life and achievements of Antonio Meucci should be recognized, and his work in the invention of the telephone should be acknowledged .
skinny_italian_dude: Hundreds of years later
skinny_italian_dude: Does no good now, the man is dead
1BuffFlip: yeah
1BuffFlip: nobody knows who he is
1BuffFlip: while Bell's grandchildren are makin' bank
skinny_italian_dude: Meucci's offspring are picking olives and sewing diesel jeans til their hands are blistered
1BuffFlip: It's like how that filipino dude didn't get recognized for being one of the founders of L.A.
skinny_italian_dude: I am going to add him to my list of heroes on myspace
1BuffFlip: Add the filipino dude while you are at it
skinny_italian_dude: Awesome
skinny_italian_dude: Antonio Meucci... right up there next to Weng Weng
Sep 10th