And Marconi had Tesla to thank!
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Yes and Samuel F. B. Morse got his name immortalized.
‘Tony Soprano’ had a diatribe as to how the Italian Inventors were not given credit for their inventions. He specified Antonio Meucci having to take a back seat to ‘Don Ameche’ for the invention of the telephone.
“What hath God wrought?”
Otis Pond, an engineer then working for Tesla, said, “Looks as if Marconi got the jump on you.”
Tesla replied, “Marconi is a good fellow. Let him continue. He is using seventeen of my patents.”
Later Tesla got mad and changed his mind, when Marconi won the Nobel Prize in 1911. He sued the Marconi Company for infringement, and won after the case went to the U.S. Supreme Court.