I noted in this space eleven years ago the death of Joseph J. Zimmermann Jr., the man who invented the answering machine. On that occasion I quoted something that H.L. Mencken told a reporter in 1946, two years before Zimmermann came up with his world-changing idea: "The only modern inventions that have been of any […]
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:30AM on December 7, 2015