Thread: Copper Wire

After having dug to a depth of 10 feet last year, British 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.
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>
> Not to be outdone by the Brit's, in the weeks that followed, an American
> archaeologist dug to a depth of 20 feet, and shortly after, a story
> 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 British".
>
>
> One week later, the state's Dept of Minerals and Energy in Western
> Australia ,
> reported the following:
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>
>
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> "After digging as deep as 30 feet in Western Australia 's Pilbara region,
> Jack
> Lucknow, a self-taught Archaeologist, reported that he found absolutely
> B** all.
> Jack has therefore concluded that 250 years ago, Australia had already
> gone
> wireless."
>
>
> Doesn't that make you proud to be Australian.