 | Mike Allison - 1996 - 212 páginas
...You're crazy.' Drillers whom Edwin L. Drake tried to enlist to his project to drill for oil in 1859 'This "telephone" has too many shortcomings to be...communication. The device is inherently of no value to us.' Western Union internal memo, 1876 'Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.' Lord Kelvin, president,... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Commerce. Subcommittee on Energy and Power - 1997 - 92 páginas
...Union first looked at the newfangled telephone invented in 1876, their response in an internal memo was this telephone has too many shortcomings to be seriously...communication. The device is inherently of no value to us." By 1880, there were only 50,000 phone lines in the United States, but in 1908 AT&T bought Western Union.... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 404 páginas
...Law) Nothing is impossible for the person who doesn't have to do it. 237 (Western Union memo, 1876) This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously...communication. The device is inherently of no value to us. 238 What costs nothing is worth nothing. 239 What men usually ask of God when they pray is that two... | |
 | Clifford A. Pickover - 1998 - 308 páginas
...home." (Ken Olsen, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corporation, 1977) • "The telephone has too many shortcomings to be seriously...communication. The device is inherently of no value to us." (Western Union internal memo, 1876) • "Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value."... | |
 | Gary Belsky - 1998 - 246 páginas
...Pasteur's theory of germs is ridiculous fiction. " French professor of physiology Pierre Pachet, 1872. "The telephone has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication." A corporate memo from telegraph operator Western Union, 1876. "What use could this company make of... | |
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telephone" has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us. 
