futilitycloset.com — A man about 43 years of age giving the name Joshua Coppersmith has been arrested for attempting to extort funds from ignorant and superstitious people by exhibiting a device which he says will convey the human voice any distance over metallic wires...
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renesisxFeb 16, 2009
I can't find anything to back this up. I see many references to it being an editorial in the Boston Globe in 1865, yet Wikipedia says the first edition of the Boston Globe was in 1872.Unless someone can find the paper, I call hoax.
ellisislandFeb 16, 2009
Might be a hoax - I never heard of that before - but I had a good laugh.
i4ugaFeb 16, 2009
and I thought he was an attorney from Illinois......
rakeshishereFeb 16, 2009
*looks at this iPhone*