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I have always heard that according to the American Indian "vegetarian" meant bad hunter. I never really believed it until now after reading your post, it makes sense.
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Ever heard of Alexander Graham Bell?
Bell was the first to patent the telephone. Meucci had an earlier caveat for an invention of a telephone device but did not have the finances to renew it or patent it. I believe the story is Bell's lawyer and someone else with a telephone design got to the patent office the same day and Bell was credited with the first patent because his lawyer was in line first.
Of course. Bell was the first to get a US Patent, 6 years after Meucci disclosed his invention through what they called a Caveat. The controversy stems from the fact that Meucci didn’t explicitly specify human vocal sounds, but reading his disclosure, there’s no question that’s what he was talking about. The entire concept of amplification in order to get sound to travel down a telegraph wire and be heard on the side was the same.
I think today’s Disclosure method would help to not allow this to happen. Disclosure today costs very little. Patents on the other hand cost quite a bit. A Disclosure leads to a Patent Pending, which prevents someone else from getting a patent before you do on the same art.
Having owned one for decades before I gave it away I can assure everyone it is called a moochie!
In the early eighties when I got mine Meuccies were the hot cue to own around my part of the country. I hear tell Bob used soft maple for shafts though. Limber didn't describe them! I could tie mine around a lamp post without breaking it.
Always pissed off other owners to call them moochies so that is what I did!(grin)
Hu
In the early eighties when I got mine Meuccies were the hot cue to own around my part of the country. I hear tell Bob used soft maple for shafts though. Limber didn't describe them! I could tie mine around a lamp post without breaking it.
Always pissed off other owners to call them moochies so that is what I did!(grin)
Hu
Mayoucheee!
That’s called a bad beat!
For sure Jay! The early bird caught a whole industry lol
If you knew Italian you'd know that the letter 'a' is pronounced as if it were an 'e'
and the letter 'e' is pronounced as it were an 'a'. All letters are pronounced phonetically
so Meucci = May-uc-ci would be the more correct. English is one a very few Countries
that doesn't pronounce all our words phonetically.
hank
Yes lol I had read about the story a long time ago but couldn't remember the details of it and I had heard later about adding his contributions to the history. I spent a lot of time as a kid reading book and encyclopedias lol. Audio books and google save a bit of work if you can wade through the nonsense. Although that is also a chore!
Fun fact, the patent that Bell received sky rocketed his business and was awarded some prize for like a half a million dollars and used to build Bell Laboratories. I would say the biggest Bell Labs invention was the transistor in the 1940's. All because he got lucky. Well a little lucky with a bunch of education, hard work and the application of science towards invention. My uncle was an engineer who worked for NCR. He is on patents involving Fuzzy Logic and SCSI drives. He told me some of his work with NCR included projects at Bell Labs. This is why I became and Engineer.
That's how I pronounce it, but I'm a redneck! What do I know?
As many others have noted it is pronounced May-oo-chee which really should be obvious just by looking at it. For those that would like to hear it you can go to the link below and click on the second video and hear Bob Meucci himself pronounce it at the very beginning of the video. He also says the name in most of the other videos he is in. He tends to say it quickly though so it can have a bit of a Mew-chee sound to it at first "glance" if you aren't listening closely to the enunciation.
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To Quote Leo Szilard the physicist, "If you want to succeed in the world, you don't have to be much cleverer than other people. You just have to be one day earlier."
My friend and partner held over eighty patents. When I happened to be talking about harddrives and mentioned the flying head reading them he was irate. "Don't tell me about that, I invented it!" Apparently a patent that got away.
Hu
Sorry, but either you’re explaining it wrong or you’re memory is wrong.
From my linguistic study:
In most languages
a is pronounce ah
e is pronounced eh or ay (depending on how the word flows.
I is pronounce ee
o is pronounced somewhere betwren oh and aw
u is pronounced something close to oo
And dipthongs have their own set of rules for each language.
cc followed by an e or i in Italian is pronounced ‘ch’