Jewish Invention Myths: Optical Fibre Cable

In my recent article discussing whether the inventor of the modern variant of optical fibre cable – Peter C. Schultz – is jewish or not; I explained there is no evidence that I can find that Schultz is jewish despite several unevidenced jewish claims that he is. (1)

However, I wanted to follow that article up by pointing out that although Schultz did invent modern optical fibre cable; he didn’t actually invent the concept nor the original technology.

The concept of guided optical refraction was first demonstrated by English inventor John Tyndall in London in 1854. (2)

The first person to use optical technology to carry information was Alexander Graham Bell in 1880 as Mary Beilis explains:

‘In 1880, Alexander Graham Bell invented his 'Photophone', which transmitted a voice signal on a beam of light. Bell focused sunlight with a mirror and then talked into a mechanism that vibrated the mirror. At the receiving end, a detector picked up the vibrating beam and decoded it back into a voice the same way a phone did with electrical signals.’ (3)

Bell’s ‘Photophone’ used Tyndall’s guided optical refraction to carry voice signals – much as we do today – but it was John Logie Baird and Clarence Hansell who patented the use of the idea of using arrays of transparent rods to transmit images (aka optical fibres) for television and facsimiles respectively in the 1920s. (4)

So, no Peter C. Schultz didn’t invent the optical fibre cable – rather he invented the modern version of it – and neither Schultz, Tyndall, Bell, Baird nor Hansell were jewish.

Therefore, jews did not invent the optical fibre cable.

References

(1) See my article: https://karlradl14.substack.com/p/is-peter-c-schultz-jewish

(2) Regis Bates, 2001, ‘Optical Switching and Networking Handbook’, 1st Edition, McGraw-Hill: New York, p. 10

(3) https://archive.ph/20120712024320/http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aa980407.htm#selection-479.0-483.321

(4) Ibid.