Alexander Graham Bell & Elisha Gray both filed for the telephone patent in 1876, on the same day. Bells application got there first, by only a few hours. The electromagnetic properties that make radio possible where discovered by scientist like Heinrich Hertz(c1888), and James Maxwell (c1884). But the actual use, therefore invention and technology, is … Read more

Science is the pursuit of knowledge of the natural world. Technology is simply tool making. In the past technology relied on memorized recipes passed from master to apprentice. No scientific method was used. Science, itself, was largely a mental exercise, relying little on empirical data found thru experiment, in the not too distant past. The … Read more