nizo's Journal: 365 Immigrants Blog

http://365immigrants.blogspot.com/

My goal is to document 365 immigrants that made (or make) America a better place to live, one per day for the next 365 days. Right now I'm on day 57!

You lost me

[Jeremiah Cornelius]

With Kissinger. :-(

Re:

[nizo]

Certainly some people would put forth he did a good job; I'm trying not to be totally biased here and post only liberal hippy immigrants.

Suggestions

[tomhudson]

Werner von Braun (science - American Space Program) , Arnold Schwarzenegger (comedy - Last Action Hero, True Lies)

But you might want to remove Bell - he didn't invent the telephone. You COULD add Alexander Graham Bell Kowalski - the first Telephone Pole.

Technically, you could also include Washington and Jefferson, since the colony of Virginia was English territory at the time, but I guess not :-)

And the Birthers would have you include Barak Obama ...

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[mcgrew]

But you might want to remove Bell - he didn't invent the telephone.

Alexander Graham Bell (March 3, 1847 â" August 2, 1922) was an eminent scientist, inventor, engineer and innovator who is credited with inventing the first practical telephone.

Bell's father, grandfather, and brother had all been associated with work on elocution and speech, and both his mother and wife were deaf, profoundly influencing Bell's life's work.[1] His research on hearing and speech further led him to experiment with hearing

US Congress says Antonio Meucci telephone inventor

[tomhudson]

http://www.zakkeith.com/articles,blogs,forums/who-invented-the-telephone.htm [zakkeith.com]

According to the U.S. Congress in Washington, Bell was a cunning opportunist who took all the credit for a more brilliant scientistâ(TM)s work. The House of Representatives voted to recognise mechanical genius Antonio Meucci as the father of modern communications, following a protracted battle by historians and Italian Americans.

The real inventor of the telephone, Meucci, born April 13, 1808, had been working in Cuba in the 1

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[mcgrew]

Bell was a thief.

It sure looks like it. Wikipedia says about Meucci

Antonio Santi Giuseppe Meucci (Italian pronunciation: [anËtÉ"Ënjo meËuttÊfi]; April 13, 1808 â" October 18, 1889) was a compatriot of Italian revolutionary Giuseppe Garibaldi,[1] and an inventor, best known for developing a voice communication apparatus which several sources credit as the first telephone.[2][3]

Odd that the wikipedia article on Bell doesn't mention the controversy. Wikipedia also says

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