The Truth About History - Hardcover

By: Russell R. Miller

Language: English

Quality: Good

Genre: Encyclopedia, History,

ISBN: 97004159

SKU: BE501392913416

Pages: 320

Description: We all know that Florence Nightingale was the great angel of mercy who saved thousands of lives by tending to the wounds of Crimean War soldiers, but in reality, her hospital was a much more serious threat to their health than that war's brutal front line. Any school child can tell you that Thomas Edison invented the light bulb, but in fact another prolific inventor, Hiram Maxim, beat him to it. And forget about Alexander Graham Bell inventing the telephone, Italian American tinkerer Antonio Meucci bested him by at least four years in transmitting voices over a wire.