You'll never guess who made the first wireless telephone (signoregalilei.com)

Alexander Graham Bell was a successful inventor and made breakthroughs with helicopters and hydrofoils. Definitely not a one trick pony.

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"Antonio Meucci invented the telephone and he got robbed! Everybody knows that!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJDNCxMfbLQ

As a kid I had this idea of using mirrors for wireless communication. I've never heard of this one before but it makes me very happy! I was thinking of using it for like, torrents or something though.

In more technical terms, Bell used amplitude modulation of audio using light as the carrier wave, and selenium as a photoconductive transducer.

I think he could have gotten away with naming his daughter Photophone, but he would have to pronounce it as if she were a character from an ancient greek epic: phoTOphoNEE.

I did guess. There was a photophone project in one of those Forrest M. Mims notebooks you could get at Radio Shack, and it mentioned that Bell considered it even more important than the telephone.