As you already know - things change with time - buildings,
nature, people, and for example information - thanks to new sources and cuttign edge discoveries.
Let us assure you - your teachers didn't lie to you on purpose - they just taught,
based on what information was available to them.
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Alexander Graham Bell did not invent the telephone
Alexander Bell is not the inventor of the telephone as it is widely accepted we are all taught.
He was actually the first to patent it.
It turns out that Bell was one of several scientists working on the telephone idea at the same time,
but he got to the patent office before them.
In 2002, however, an impoverished Florentine immigrant was credited as the inventor of the telephone.
The Guardian reports: "Historians and Italian-Americans have won their battle to persuade Washington to recognize
the little-known genius inventor Antonio Meucci
as the father of modern communications 113 years after his death."
Antonio Meucci was born on April 13, 1808, in Florence. At the age of only 13,
he was admitted to the Art Academy in Florence, where he studied chemistry and mechanics.
He later worked at the Teatro Della Pergola,
where he met his future wife and developed his talents by working on sets and special visual effects.
There he first realized a project allowing communication at a distance.
Meucci constructed a system based on air-filled tubes,
thanks to which stagehands could communicate with each other quickly and unnoticed by the audience.
In the mid-1930s, Meucci received an offer to sign a 5-year contract to serve the theater in Cuba.
The Italian inventor and his wife accept the offer.
They spent 15 years in Havana, during which Meucci amassed considerable wealth and fame.
His greatest discovery happened quite by accident.
He is asked to conduct tests on the use of electricity in the treatment of rheumatism.
During the experiments, he puts one of the elements of the installation to his ear and hears the scream of a
patient who was in another room.
Influenced by the discovery, Meucci began studies, work on which would continue for many years.
When the last contract with the theater expired, the inventor and his wife,
whose health was damaged by the tropical climate of the island, decided to move to the United States.
The family settled in Staten Island, and Meucci started several businesses, but unfortunately,
none of them were successful, eventually leading to bankruptcy.
He even loses his house, in which he is, however, allowed to continue living.
His wife's progressive illness confined her to bed.
This encourages the inventor to work on the "telephone" as we now know it.
For 20 years, he developed nearly 30 different solutions,
finally constructing a project that allows safe and smooth communication between the bedroom
where his wife lies and his laboratory in the basement.
With the support of other Italian immigrants, Meucci founded the company Telettrofono and patented his invention.
Unfortunately, he does not have enough funds to distribute it.
The Italian also had difficulty conducting tests on a larger scale, for which he wanted to use the existing telegraph line.
As the years pass, the patent expires, and the inventor does not have the money,
specifically $10, to extend his patent protection.
The American telephone company Bell Telephone appears on the market.
Meucci began a long-running legal process that, even now, nearly 140 years later,
provokes much debate among specialists in the fields of technology, history, and law.
Ultimately, the process, which began in 1885 and involved even the government administration,
ended in 1897 without a solution.
In 2002, the US House of Representatives, at the request of the New York City Council,
passed a resolution recognizing Meucci's contribution to the invention of the telephone,
but this caused mixed feelings, as the dispute with Alexander Graham Bell has not yet been resolved.
The resolution declared that Meucci's "teletrophone," demonstrated in New York in 1860,
made him the inventor of the telephone instead of Bell,
even though it was Bell who received the patent 16 years later.
"The House of Representatives believes that the life and achievements of Antonio Meucci should be recognized
and his work on the invention of the telephone should be appreciated," the resolution also states.
Columbus used a shortcut and got lucky
Columbus set out to prove that the Earth was round and discovered America. Wrong!
Although over the years it has been taught this way in schools.
As absurd as it sounds, this fallacy is widespread, especially in the United States.
Even assuming that Columbus set out on a mission to prove that the earth was round, he was about 2,000 years too late.
Even the ancient Greek mathematicians proved that the Earth is not flat.
The founder of this idea was Pythagoras in the 6th century BC, and then Aristotle,
Eratosthenes, and others provided evidence on the subject.
Columbus, for his part, was a self-taught navigator who greatly exaggerated the circumference of the Earth.
The Italian thought Europe was bigger than it really was,
and Japan thought it was further away from mainland China than it actually was.
It was his beliefs that made him think he could reach Asia by sailing west.
An idea frankly considered silly by educated Europeans.
But not because they thought the Earth was flat, but because Columbus's calculations were totally wrong.
For his part, the adventurous navigator got very lucky and came across a land that, of course, was not Asia.
The myth of the flat earth and Columbus is given by Washington Irving's novel
The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus, published in 1828,
which tells that the famous navigator undertook his voyage to prove that the Earth was not flat
and in response to this he met resistance from the clergy.
Subsequently, this theory gained popularity.
Irving was the first modern biographer of the Italian navigator
to describe his exploits and draw public attention to Columbus.
Even if we abstract from the fact that millions of people lived on the land discovered by Columbus
millennia before it was called America, and they discovered it who-knows- when....
Even if we close our eyes to the fact that the Viking Leif Eriksson traveled to Greenland and today's Canada
around the year 1000, Columbus is still not the discoverer of America.
In fact, until the end of his life, the navigator claimed that he had reached the shores of Asia,
although his navigators and crew knew that this was not true.
Columbus actually “discovered” in quotes, the Bahamian archipelago and then the island once called Hispaniola,
now divided into Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
On his subsequent travels, he traveled further south to Central and South America,
but never actually came close to what is now the United States of America.
It is logical to ask the question - why do Americans honor this Italian as their patron?
The reason lies in the fact that the young United States was at war with England, not Spain.
The navigator Jonah Cabot (original name Giovanni Caboti, also Italian) "discovered"
the island of Newfoundland (today's Canada) under the English flag in 1497.
In fact, he was the European who first landed in North America and opened the way for England to colonize these lands.
But in a state of war, the American settlers adopted Columbus as their official hero,
not the "playing-for-the-english-team" Englishman Cabot.
That is why even today Americans have the capital Washington
in the District of Columbia, not in the Cabotia District.
Henry Ford did not invent the automobile
Henry Ford made cars better, cheaper, and faster.
We can say that just as today electric cars are considered the pinnacle of technology,
so at the time Ford cars were revolutionary achievements that changed the automotive market forever.
However, many people think he invented the automobile.
This is an absolutely false statement.
It was German mechanical engineer Karl Benz who designed and built the first car powered by an internal combustion engine.
The original model was Benz's three-wheeled Motorwagen.
It was put on the roads for the first time in 1885.
After it, others appeared. Ford did not start producing his first car until a year later in 1886.
However, there is no denying Ford's ingenuity in building larger factories with mobile production lines
to mass-produce cars making them widely available to the masses.
Although he didn't invent the automobile, he certainly contributed a lot to Americans' love of automobiles.
The real story of Henry Ford's cars is one of the facts about America you won't find in history books.
Thomas Edison did not invent the light bulb
There is no denying that Edison was one of the greatest scientists – he perfected the telegraph and the telephone,
as well as the cinematograph, laid the foundations of electronics, and invented the phonograph.
But the famous inventor was not the first person to invent the light bulb.
Forty years before he was born, Davy Humphrey invented an electric light bulb, but it only burned for twelve hours.
All that remained for Edison was to find a suitable material for the wire in the light bulb.
Thus, the light bulb could now be constantly lit, without the danger of switching off after twelve hours.
Thomas Edison received 1908 patents in the United States and another three thousand in other countries of the world.
However, he is not the author of all inventions, some of them are the work of his unknown scientists - employees,
one of whom was even the engineer Nikola Tesla himself.
We have more than five senses
We all know about the five main senses - touch, taste, smell, sight, and hearing.
These are also our most basic senses, but we take in information through a variety of other mechanisms.
Proprioception is muscle sensation, the sense of self-motion,
and the position of parts of our own body both relative to each other and in space.
This sense also tells us where our body is in space, allowing us to keep our balance.
Proprioception is sometimes described as a 'sixth sense".
Kinesthetic receptors detect the stretch of muscles and tendons, which helps us monitor the different parts of our body.
We also have receptors that monitor how much oxygen is passing through our arteries.
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