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Thomas Farely

Tom has produced privateline.com since 1995. He is now a freelance technology writer who contributes regularly to the site.

His knowledge of telecommunications has served, most notably, the American Heritage Invention and Technology Magazine and The History Channel.
His interview on Alexander Graham Bell will air on the History Channel the end of 2006.

Ken Schmidt

Ken is a licensed attorney who has worked in the tower industry for seven years. He has managed the development of broadcast towers nationwide and developed and built cell towers.

He has been quoted in newspapers and magazines on issues regarding cell towers and has spoke at industry and non-industry conferences on cell tower related issues.

He is recognized as an expert on cell tower leases and due diligence processes for tower acquisitions.

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May 01, 2001

Posted by Tom Farley & Mark van der Hoek at 12:03 AM

The Telephone Was Invented in Canada. I think not . . .

Sue Mansell of Waterloo, Ontario has just e-mailed me these links to Canadian history and A.G. Bell. While correctly stating that the Great One, Wayne Gretzky, is also from Brantford, although not by way of Edinburgh, Sue maintains Bell said the telephone was invented in Canada. I will need to check that statement because no claim for Bell's site of the first transmission of intelligible speech has ever been made other than Boston. Hmm. Links below now all dead

http://www.city.brantford.on.ca/Tourism_/main.htm

http://www.city.brantford.on.ca/parks_and_rec/bell_main.html

http://www.museumsontario.com/museums/musdir/belhom.shtml

http://parkscanada.pch.gc.ca/

parks/nova_scotia/alex_g_bell/Alex_g_bell_e.htm

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