Described as a bearded rustic tinkerer from Yellow Breeches Creek, Pennsylvania, he claimed to have invented a telephone using a teacup as a transmitter as early as 1867, but had been too poor to patent it then.
Partha Ghose, Dipankar Home: Riddles in your teacup: 100 science puzzles from everyday life, illustrated by Suparno Chaudhuri, Rupa 1990
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He is co-author with Partha Ghose of the popular book Riddles in your Teacup - Fun with Everyday Scientific Puzzles.
In 2007 she attracted new media attention after Ozzy Osbourne's Mary Rose Young teacup and saucer fetched $1,650.00 in a charity auction of his possessions.
Future Ted mentions she also had a dream involving Frankenstein and the teacup from Beauty and the Beast.