ian Stanbury
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COPPER WIRE
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, American archaeologists dug to a depth of 20 feet before finding traces of copper wire. Shortly afterwards, they published an article in the New York Times saying : "American archaeologists, having found 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."
A few weeks later, ‘The British Archaeological Society of Southern England’ reported the following: "After digging down to a depth of 33 feet in his garden at Fenny Compton in Warwickshire in 2011, Pepper Brookes, a self-taught amateur archaeologist, reported that he had found absolutely no copper wires at all and therefore concluded that 250 years ago, Britain had already gone wireless."
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, American archaeologists dug to a depth of 20 feet before finding traces of copper wire. Shortly afterwards, they published an article in the New York Times saying : "American archaeologists, having found 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."
A few weeks later, ‘The British Archaeological Society of Southern England’ reported the following: "After digging down to a depth of 33 feet in his garden at Fenny Compton in Warwickshire in 2011, Pepper Brookes, a self-taught amateur archaeologist, reported that he had found absolutely no copper wires at all and therefore concluded that 250 years ago, Britain had already gone wireless."
