Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utcsrgv.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcsrgv!perelgut From: perelgut@utcsrgv.UUCP (Stephen Perelgut) Newsgroups: net.misc,can.general Subject: Re: Canada's Tradition as a Pioneer in Communications Technology Message-ID: <3393@utcsrgv.UUCP> Date: Tue, 28-Feb-84 13:42:34 EST Article-I.D.: utcsrgv.3393 Posted: Tue Feb 28 13:42:34 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 28-Feb-84 22:10:06 EST References: <3389@utcsrgv.UUCP> Organization: CSRG, University of Toronto Lines: 30 . Bell sketched detailed plans for the telephone in July 1874 while at his parent's home in Brantford, Ontario but: a) Alexander Graham Bell was a Scottish immigrant b) the first telephone didn't work until 1876 when Bell spilled some acid and his assistant heard through the experimental telephone the now immortal words (thanks to Don Ameche), "Mr. Watson, come here, I want you." c) Bell demonstrated his one way telephone for the first time on June 25, 1876 at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition. (Coincidently the same day that General George Custer and his troops were busy providing amusement for a bunch of Sioux indians at the Little Bighorn.) [ The above information is take from a draft copy of "Knights of the New Technology", Imprint/Key Porter without permission. The information is available as public knowledge if you look hard enough!] P.S. From the same source, quoting Marshall McLuhan from his 1964 book "Understanding Media" on the effects of telecommunications on human behaviour. "No more unexpected social result of the telephone has been observed than its elimination of the red-light district and its creation of the call girl." -- Stephen Perelgut Computer Systems Research Group University of Toronto Usenet: {linus, ihnp4, allegra, decvax, floyd}!utcsrgv!perelgut CSNET: perelgut@Toronto