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<cr1901_modern>
ej5: Have you ever heard the phonoautograph waveforms? Another case of "someone else discovered it first".
<ej5>
yeah history is full of the stuff
<ej5>
i'm starting to develop an alternative view of accepted history because of all the reading i've been doing
<cr1901_modern>
there's a Law that states "the discoverer of a phenomenon never gets a Law named after them"
<ej5>
it's more of a zeitgeist theory: an idea starts to get popular, lots of people look into it, read each other's papers, blogs, etc
<cr1901_modern>
or something like that
<ej5>
then some charismatic individual comes forth and claims it all as their own
<ej5>
sacrificing minorities, women, PoC, etc on the altar of the nietzschean ubermensch
<cr1901_modern>
indeed. Probably not really a good idea to name a single person as a discoverer of, well, anything
<cr1901_modern>
According to the wiki article, near the end of his life, Hughes _did_ start calling his device a "coherer"
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