[K6BW] Copper Wire Discovered

[Michael Tharin]

very cute. I was ok until LA,

On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 2:08 AM, Bill Smith <hbco2 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

>
> After having dug to a depth of 10 feet last year outside of New York
> City , New York scientists found traces of copper cable dating back 100
> years. They came to the conclusion that their ancestors already had a
> telephone network more than 100 years ago.Not to be outdone by the New
> Yorkers, in the weeks that followed, a Los Angeles , California
> archaeologist dug to a depth of 20 feet somewhere just outside Oceanside
> . Shortly after, a story in the LA Times read: " California
> archaeologists report a finding of 200 year old copper cable, have
> concluded that their ancestors already had an advanced high-tech
> communications network a hundred years earlier than the New Yorkers."
>
> One week later, a local newspaper in Burwell , Nebraska reported the
> following: "After digging down about 30 feet deep in his pasture near
> the community of Elyria , Nebraska , Stanley Kolwaski, a self-taught
> archaeologist, reported that he found absolutely nothing. Stanley has
> therefore concluded that 300 years ago, Nebraska had already gone
> wireless".
>
> >From Duncan Brown, Antique Wireless Association Newsgroup
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