Comments by "marie parker" (@marieparker3822) on "Did a black man invent the mobile phone?" video.

  1. Francis Galton was a Victorian with Victorian attitudes and knowledge. He was a pioneer of fingerprints, inventor of modern meteorology (postulating the importance of air masses in influencing weather, and inventing the terms isobar and anticyclone), he developed biometrics and statistics, measuring distributions of human characteristics like height (usually Normal or Gaussian) and defining Standard Deviation and Regression towards the Mean, he investigated composite photographs, and studied Genetics (for his time), coining the term Eugenics. The Galton Laboratory of Genetics in University College London (UCL) was named after him because of his association with the College. Some people are now trying to 'dename' it because of his 'racism' (I don't think he was in any way connected with slavery as he lived long after its abolition, but perhaps one of his great-grandfathers was, I don't know). This is what happened to David Hume House, a Hall of Residence in Edinburgh University, 'denamed' by children who ought not to be at University, and condoned by a cowardly Administration. (Apparently, one of the greatest philosophers of the Enlightenment had once lent some money to someone who had used it to buy shares in a plantation in the West Indies.)
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