Samuel F. B. Morse didn't invent the telegraph. Alexander Graham Bell didn't invent the telephone. Thomas Edison invented neither the light bulb nor the movie camera. Guglielmo Marconi most assuredly didn't invent radio. Neither Philo Farnsworth nor Vladimir Zworykin invented television. The integrated circuit's provenance remains in simmering dispute between Jack Kilby fans and Robert Noyce supporters. As for the Internet and its ubiquitous browser, let's just say that-as with these other technological "breakthroughs"-"publicity," "priority," and "patent" are often mutually exclusive.

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