Milpitas Role in Telecom History

After having dug to a depth of 10 feet last year outside of Buffalo, New York scientists found traces of copper cable dating back 120 years. They came to the conclusion that their ancestors already had a telephone network more than 100 years ago.

Not to be outdone by the New Yorkers, in the weeks that followed, a Wheeling WV archaeologist dug to a depth of 20 feet somewhere just outside Woodsdale. Shortly after, a story in the The Intelligencer read, “WV archaeologists, reporting a finding of 200 year old copper cable, have concluded that their ancestors already had an advanced high-tech communications network a hundred years earlier than the New Yorkers.

One week later, a local newspaper in Milpitas, California, reported the following: “After digging down about 30 feet deep in his pasture, Pete Silva, a hell of an engineer and a self-taught archaeologist and gynecologist, reported that he found absolutely nothing. Silva has therefore concluded that 300 years ago, Milpitas had already gone wireless.”