Article 3WQTF Thomas Edison Predicted Nobody Would Be Able to Make Phone Calls Across the Atlantic Ocean

Thomas Edison Predicted Nobody Would Be Able to Make Phone Calls Across the Atlantic Ocean

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Never say never. Thomas Edison was both a great inventor and an amusing prognosticator. But nobody, no matter how smart, knows the future. And that goes for Edison as well. Back in 1894, Edison predicted that transatlantic phone calls would be impossible. But his doubts would prove silly roughly 30 years later when"

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