Communication News

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After having dug to a depth of 10 metres last year, Scottish

 

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 Scots, in the weeks that followed, English

 

scientists dug to a depth of 20 metres, and shortly after, headlines

 

in the English newspapers read: "English 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 Scots."

 

 

 

One week later, "The Kerrymen," a southwest Irish newsletter,

 

reported the following: "After digging as deep as 30 metres in peat

 

bog near Tralee , Paddy O'Droll, a self-taught archaeologist,

 

reported that he found absolutely nothing. Paddy has therefore

 

concluded that 300 years ago, Ireland had already gone 'wireless'