For those unfamiliar with telephones, they are similar to mobile phones but they are not mobile. They cannot piggyback on humans, shadow them everywhere and drain the life out of them like vampires
The first car to be invented by Karl Benz was a horseless carriage. It was fine. It worked. It meant that horses regained their freedom after they lost it a few hundred years
History that may or may not be true: written by a self-celebrated writer who has, like Thomas Edison, not failed 10,000 times but wrote 10,000 jokes that aren’t funny.