After having dug to a depth of 30 feet last year, Italian scientists near Rome found traces of copper wire dating back 150 years and came to the conclusion that their ancestors already had a telephone network more than 150 years ago, at least 50 years before Guglielmo Marconi was awarded the Nobel Prize.
Not to be outdone by the Italians, in the weeks that followed British scientists dug to a depth of 60 feet in the oldest section of London and shortly after headlines in the UK newspapers read:
"British archaeologists have found traces of 200 year-old copper wire and have concluded that their ancestors already had an advanced high-tech communications network a hundred years earlier than the Italians."
One week later the Irish press reported the following: "After digging as deep as 90 feet in remote CountyClare, Paddy O'Brien, a self-taught archaeologist , reported that he found absolutely nothing. Paddy has therefore concluded that 300 years ago, Ireland had already gone wireless."
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