Telephone has Shortcomings – It was printed in a memo at Western Union in 1878 that
“This ‘telephone’ has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us”
Electric Light will Close as well – Oxford professor Erasmus Wilson predicted that
“When the Paris Exhibition [of [...]
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