RUSSIAN BOAST
, Beceived Tliursday, 7.0 p.m. LONDON, Sept. 4. A Moscow message says that Professor A. Zvorykin, in an article in Pravda, denies that Edison, Marconi and Morse invented the incandescent electric bulh, radio anci telegraph, and claims that all three inventions were originally made hy Russians but were stolen by "foreign beasts of prey." The article biames Peter the Great for under-estimating the Russian mind and skill and ov^r-estimating the abilities of foreigners. It urges that this feeling of inferiority should he banished because the Soviet people have "now become the bulwark of world civilisation and progress. ' '
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Chronicle (Levin), 5 September 1947, Page 5
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