> The question is what electronics.
> It seems that A. Volta is said to be the farther of the battery, but
> perhaps not. There has been the occasional (And not very well
documented)
> unearthing of Roman goodies that appear to be batteries is clay pots.

In the USA, it is widely known that Christopher Columbus was not the first to
discover the Americas, but still it is his name that is most often cited. Being
first isn't everything. Sometimes it's the discoverer with the most publicity
who makes the biggest difference. And sometimes it's a matter of whether
the world is ready to pay attention. I think some discoverers/inventors have
gone unnoticed simply because they did their work at a time in which the
world just wasn't interested. Maybe because there was not yet any practical
way to use the idea (like some of Leonardo Davinci's ideas that needed
motors or stronger/lighter materials before they could be practical). Maybe
because the discovery conflicted with prevailing views such that it was
condemned as heresy and suppresed. Maybe because written language
was so scarce that the idea simply got lost before it was widely known. Who
knows. But it does seem that some moments in history are "ripe" for a
discovery that if not discovered by the person who is now famous for it,
would soon have been discovered by someone else.  And at other times, the
world just isn't ready.


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                                        Peace,
                                        William Kitchen
                                        bill@iglobal.net

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