Columbus discovered America; Hudson discovered New York; Benjamin Franklin discovered the spark That Edison discovered would light up the
dark ;
Marconi discovered the wireless telegraph Across the ocean blue. But the greatest discoveree. . .
The old musical comedy song-might well have gone back to another inventor of Bologna, Italy, who lived centuries before Guglielmo Marconi. This wight was a butcher, too fat to fight but keenly alive to the tortures of hunger which soldiers often suffer. As the warriors of Bologna prepared one time to sally forth against the Milanese, he conceived...
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