After having dug to a depth of 10 feet last year, New York Scientists found traces of copper wire dating back 100 years and came to the conclusion, that their ancestors already had a telephone network more than 100 years ago.
Not to be outdone by the New Yorkers, in the weeks that followed, a California archaeologist dug to a depth of 20 feet, and shortly after, A story in the LA Times read: “California archaeologists, finding of 200 year old copper wire, have concluded that their ancestors already had an advanced high-tech communications network a hundred years earlier than the New Yorkers”.
One week later. A local newspaper in Tennessee reported the following: “After digging as deep as 30 feet in his pasture near Maryville, Tennessee, Wade and Bob Dudley, self-taught archaeologists, reported that they found absolutely nothing. They therefore concluded that 300 years ago, Tennessee had already gone wireless”.
Thanks Gene
Wow, I lived there and didn’t know that. I did know that the toilet seat was invented by a man in Birmingham, Alabama. But it was a man from Maryville who got the idea to cut a hole in it.
Do people in Tennessee know what “wireless” means? I mean, it doesn’t refer to a radio anymore, Tennesseans.
What is this “radio” that you speak of?