Show t Matter of 01 Invention r Sub Subject to Dispute J t Among w nil all the Inventors of ot whom pOl popular history tells only onty three Archimedes des Ericsson and Edison have hn keen been credited with more than one Important Invention In Others may muy have equaled them In genius but hut not In io luck So leaving aside these three great Inventors let us take tala up th the inventors who di did eVI everything else and la later ter the question of ot who were really great grent Inventors In Who Invented the telegraph AnyAn Any An Anict American ican who has hns been through the eighth grade knows that It was Morse and V Vail nil In 1814 1 But Hut there wn was wac nn fin English commercial line seven years earlier and the German credit the to of ot Munich In 1 SO and io in Switzerland there was nn nu electric telegraph In 17 1774 t un and one was ceas proposed in S Scotland in 3 The lute mutter matter becomes rather confusing confusing ing for tor the eighth grade Who invented invent invent- ed the friction match There are so claimants t tint Hint we dont don't I know now who Invented In d It Who devised the old aneroid barometer In ID Paris in 1848 1843 two men VIdi and 80 Bourdon 10 n each ench claimed It with apparent apparent ent sincerity and different courts decided de de- for each of them But Hut 12 years ears earlier the philosopher hn had 1 suggested such a n barometer describIng describing ing It c. c exactly Scientific Monthly l |