After having dug to a depth of 10 feet last year, French scientists found traces of copper wire dating back 200 years and came to the conclusion that their ancestors already had a telephone network more than 150 years ago.
Not to be outdone by the French, in the weeks that followed, an American archaeologist dug to a depth of 20 feet, and shortly after, a story was published in the New York Times: “American archaeologists, finding traces of 250-year-old copper wire, have concluded that their ancestors already had an advanced high-tech communications network 50 years earlier than the French”.
One week later, the Mirror, in the UK, reported the following: “After digging as deep as 30 feet in his backyard in Dudley, England, Bert Johnson, a self-taught archaeologist, reported that he found absolutely … nothing! Bert has therefore concluded that 250 years ago, The UK had already gone wireless.”
Just makes you proud to be British!!!
