Fact of the day: It was on 18 May 1850 that Oliver Heaviside was born. He was an English physicist who with Kennelly predicted the existence of the ionosphere in 1902. Then on this day in 1923, Antoine Barnay in France submitted the first patent application for a rotary-dial telephone.
Point to ponder: It was not immediately obvious to everyone, the importance of the invention of the telephone. The President of the Western Union Telegraph company in the USA turned down an offer to buy all the rights to the invention, and in the last few years of the 19t