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Posted by NormanRHood (U14656514) on Monday, 31st January 2011
do you think inventors have been liberals or conservatives?
the man who invented the TV was a Mormon
Alan Turing id say was a gay liberal
TV wasn't invented by any one person; and the first regular working service was introduced by the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ, which is, if anything, conservatively liberal and liberally conservative, by turns.
Alan Turing id say was a gay liberalΒ
Turing was certainly gay and was prosecuted for it. Last year Gordon Brown apologised on behalf of Britain for Turing's treatment.
NormanRHood:
do you think inventors have been liberals or conservatives?Β
Thomas Edison: fine inventor, crooked businessman.
John Logie Baird was a Mormon? That's news to me!
Baird and Farnsworth were contemporaries but both invented TV systems almost at the same time - Baird was the first to present his system though and is usually credited with the invention, although Farnworth's system was better.
Neither of their systems however was the one ultimately adopted by the fledgling broadcasting services on both sides of the Atlantic (although Baird's was trialled by the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ alongside, I think, a Marconi system).
Is there a reason for asking what one's politics has to do with invention? And what do you mean by conservative and liberal? Both terms have wide ranges of meaning, depending on (for starters) where in the world you are, and the time you lived.
, in reply to message 5.
Posted by Mike Alexander (U1706714) on Tuesday, 1st February 2011
Alan Turing was a strikebreaker. He arrived in England off the ferry for his first day at Winchester School (his parents lived in France) to find the National Strike in full swing, and no trains running. Whereupon he hired a bicycle and rode to Winchester.
computer is so slow i cant read these posts-im on diiialll -upppp
did Islam nations invent more than christian nations?
Jews are inventors too and do much in science i think-like Albert Einstein
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