The phone wasn’t just a better telegraph—it was a new paradigm. Likewise, digital technology isn’t just a new channel; it’s a new way of doing business.
Interestingly, it was not Alexander Graham Bell but a little known Italian, Antonio Meucci, who first invented the telephone but he did not think of patenting his invention.
This follows Stephen Stigler’s law of misonomy. Very often there is another person, before the person to whom a discovery or invention is attributed to.
For example, the normal or bell-shaped curve is attributed to Carl Friedrich Gauss. But Abraham de Moivre had conceived of the “Gaussian” curve before, and even before this, Daniel Bernouilli was the first to come up with the Moivre curve.
Thanks Salil. You write really well.
Interestingly, it was not Alexander Graham Bell but a little known Italian, Antonio Meucci, who first invented the telephone but he did not think of patenting his invention.
This follows Stephen Stigler’s law of misonomy. Very often there is another person, before the person to whom a discovery or invention is attributed to.
For example, the normal or bell-shaped curve is attributed to Carl Friedrich Gauss. But Abraham de Moivre had conceived of the “Gaussian” curve before, and even before this, Daniel Bernouilli was the first to come up with the Moivre curve.