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[DaeguKid]

I noticed a thread that got off-topic in general disucssion. I thought I would take it over here. It was the annual "phone and where it was invented" debate.

As a Canadian, I see it like this. Bell was a Scotsman at heart most likely. I think if you asked him in his final years, he would have said he was a Scot. So Scots can say the phone was invented by a Scot. BUT.....the phone was invented in Canada. He was given the means to create his invention in Canada. Hence it is a Canadian invention, invented by a Scot.

Another thing about Bell is that he retired, died and was buried in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. So the Canadian tie is that much stronger. A good part of his working life, but not all of it, was in the States. The U.S. has nothing to do with the phone in this case IMO. If he truly saw himself as an American, he would have chosen to finish his life there.

BUT CANADIANS, take this into consideration as well...basketball. James Naismith. A Canadian who invented a game in America. Same situation as Bell. A man born, raised and educated in one country, but creates something in another.

So I ask Canadians, or anyone else for that matter...what did we invent? The phone or basketball?

If you reply and are comfortable with it, leave your nationality.
Another thing, if you feel it is both or neither, say why and I may add them as other options.
DK

[DaeguKid]

i see one vote!
Anyone else? Bueller....Bueller?....Bueller?

[genezorm]

bell stole his "invention"
and basketball is more important to society than the telephone anyways