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Thread #152916 Message #3580560
Posted By: JohnInKansas
01-Dec-13 - 08:34 PM
Thread Name: BS: 50 Greatest Inventions Since the Wheel
Subject: RE: BS: 50 Greatest Inventions Since the Wheel
Just so y'all won't think I was joking about the 1,200 year old telephone:
Can You Hear Me Now?
"There's a 1,200-year-old Phone in the Smithsonian Collections
One of the earliest examples of ingenuity in the Western Hemisphere is composed of gourds and twine."
By Neil Baldwin
Smithsonian magazine, December 2013
[There's even a nice photo of it.]
John