Why do the Americans think they invented the telephone when bell who was Scottish did?

Question

I'm not scottish, and bell was born in scotland

Answer 1

Cos they are American and don't have any of their own history so steal bits from everyone else!

Born Alexander Bell in Edinburgh, Scotland, on March 3, 1847, he later adopted the middle name 'Graham' out of admiration for Alexander Graham, a family friend. Many called Bell "the father of the Deaf." This title may be regarded as somewhat ironic due to his belief in the practice of eugenics. While both his mother and his wife were deaf, he hoped to one day eliminate hereditary deafness from the population.

His family was associated with the teaching of elocution: his grandfather in London, his uncle in Dublin, and his father, Alexander Melville Bell, in Edinburgh, were all professed elocutionists. The latter has published a variety of works on the subject, several of which are well known, especially his treatise on Visible Speech, which appeared in Edinburgh in 1868. In this he explains his method of instructing deaf mutes, by means of their eyesight, how to articulate words, and also how to read what other persons are saying by the motions of their lips.

Alexander Graham Bell was educated at the Royal High School of Edinburgh, from which he graduated at the age of 13. At the age of 16 he secured a position as a pupil-teacher of elocution and music in Weston House Academy, at Elgin, Moray, Scotland. The next year he spent at the University of Edinburgh. He was graduated from University College London.

See any mention of America in there? Don't think so! Being born nin Scotland, makes you Scottish. Therefore a Scotsman inventedthe telephone. Also being educated in the countries capital would further reinfoce his 'Scottishness!!'

You americans crack me up - you should only open your fat mouths for stuffing big macs in, not trying to act intelligent!

Answer 2

um, just to throw my two pence worth in...it was actually an italian who invented the telephone.

Antonio Meucci - patented his invention in 1871 (two years before bell)but because he couldn't finance it's production and noone would back him he was never credited till relatively recently.

He died residing in Staten Island after leaving Italy in 1835 so i guess americans may still stake a claim for Meucci as well.

Answer 3

"thatmadlass" you should list wikipedia as your source. You seemed to neglect to cut and paste the part about Bell being a naturalize citizen of the USA. Also about the other two inventors of the telephone Meucci and Gray.

Answer 4

I wasn't aware they Americans laid claim to this. Everyone knows A G Bell made the first phone call (to his assistant) as a demonstration of his new invention

Answer 5

They also think that Edison invented the lightbulb.

In 1875 Henry Woodward and Matthew Evans (Canadians) patented a light bulb.

And Joseph Swan in England got his patent the year before Edison.

Answer 6

You are a bit backward aren't you?Everyone else knows the Americans invented everything,discovered everything,(they even discovered America),they own everything,& they very kindly feed the rest of the world through their foreign aid programme.They beat the **** out of the Ancient Romans,won ww1,2&3(well they will when they get around to starting it.)

Answer 7

There is a saying " Whuas like us? " tyres, tarmac, raincoats, TELEPHONE, penicillin and on and on, maybe the Yanks thought the us was U.S! Yes a Scot and proud of our heritage!

Answer 8

Well it's the way the Americans always re-write history... in their imaginations (and movies) they retrieved the enigma code, won the second world war by themselves etcetera etcetera!!

Answer 9

Because of a little stupid thing called Patriotism.
they love the country don't they?

Answer 10

Yeah that's right, they didn't invent the computer either
and obesity (if that's an invention) was invented by the fat controller who is english, so am I by the way.