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Speaker 2: A couple of days ago we were talking about your

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Speaker 2: Faigne And we had some amazing stories. We heard about

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Speaker 2: the granddad who many years ago, this was a sad

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Speaker 2: one invented the combine harvester.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, him and his brother invented the combine harvester in

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Speaker 3: the early nineteen twenties. I think she said was.

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Speaker 2: Changed farming and how we get food in it all

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Speaker 2: over the world and then got ripped off. It was

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Speaker 2: a resale one. Then there were some which were not

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Speaker 2: quite sure if they were true. There was a guy

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Speaker 2: rickh called up about his nan who reckons she introduced

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Speaker 2: the expresso machine from Italy. She brought it over from

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Speaker 2: Italy in her suitcase. I was in a coffee shop

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Speaker 2: yesterday right, just looking at the size of an expresso machine.

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Speaker 2: That's now in twenty nineteen. Back in the sixties or seventies,

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Speaker 2: when this nana claims were in a suitcase lucked an

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Speaker 2: entire he hit to declare, no help me with my suitcases?

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Speaker 2: Might she trying to get the express a machine? Of baggage.

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Speaker 2: Recliar put my back out again. So some of them

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Speaker 2: were incredible. Had this great email from Matt my granddad.

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Speaker 2: He listens to the show in the UK. My granddad

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Speaker 2: was a civil servant in England for most of his

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Speaker 2: work in life. We knew his job was something to

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Speaker 2: is amazing. When he died we were clearing out his house.

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Speaker 2: We found a box in the attic full of paperwork.

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Speaker 2: I wonder how many people we've got stories about that,

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Speaker 2: when they're clearing out someone's properties when they've passed away,

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Speaker 2: and what they've found. Anyway, they've found a box in

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Speaker 2: the attic full of paperwork. In there were private letters

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Speaker 2: from the Queen, the Queen, Mom, Prince Charles and Dianah.

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Speaker 3: My goodness, all on headed paper. All that corresponds pals.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. We also found documentation for his job. He was

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Speaker 2: headed to security for the royal family for years. Oh wow,

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Speaker 2: I'm just working actually the head of security. My mum

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Speaker 2: remembers as a child that when they were choosing destinations

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Speaker 2: just need to check with work that we can go there.

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Speaker 2: This is because he wasn't allowed to go to countries

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Speaker 2: that the UK had disputes with al there's a risk

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Speaker 2: of him being kidnapped. Extraordinary this it's like a secret

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Speaker 2: life that the granddad was up to. He could never

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Speaker 2: talk about this as he was. Another great phrase, can

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Speaker 2: we do a phone in about sworn to secrecy? When

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Speaker 2: were you sworn to secrecy? We still say that to him.

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Speaker 2: We don't yet you swear though. I tell you that

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Speaker 2: she got to swear and sworn to secrecy. But I

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Speaker 2: wish I could have heard his stories. That's from Matt.

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Speaker 2: That's a great one. Let's part of that for one day.

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Speaker 2: Then two several things. But what did you find when

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Speaker 2: you a house clear? And after I passed away and

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Speaker 2: sworn to secrecy? When were you sworn to secrecy? And

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Speaker 2: then what?

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Speaker 1: What?

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Speaker 2: What gave us this idea about your grandparents? Claim to famous? Rio,

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Speaker 2: who works on the show, was telling us about his granddad,

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Speaker 2: Dr Ernest Smithers, and that claimed to let's get I

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Speaker 2: need to give Rio some extra news about his amazing granditor.

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Speaker 2: So Ria remind everyone your granddad invented what what great thing?

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Speaker 2: The jaffel ion, the jaffelon. That's it. Well. One of

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Speaker 2: our listeners was so interested in this he went and

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Speaker 2: googled dr Ernest Smithers. So he'd invented a whole load

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Speaker 2: of stuff. Very cool sounding. Guy has sent me a

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Speaker 2: Sydney Morning Held articuler. But have you read the Sydney

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Speaker 2: Morning Held entire article about your granddad?

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Speaker 2: I haven't. Oh I thought I'm reading this morning. It's

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Speaker 2: amazing reading invented the true slice bread knife. Also a

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Speaker 2: and then this interesting one too, Rio. Did you also

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Speaker 2: know that granddad Ernie also invented capsule's contraceptive gel a spermicide.

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Speaker 3: I vaguely actually do remember that, now that you say it,

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Speaker 2: I don't know what came first to meat tenderizer side

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Speaker 2: But did you know that? Is that incredible? Yeah? Obviously

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Speaker 2: one I'm again so many these great stories about your

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Speaker 2: if you've got anymore n one oh four three. They

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Speaker 2: just be smaller claim to Faine, so small meaning more

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Speaker 2: us a call this morning nine four one one four three.

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Speaker 1: Christian O'Connell Breakfast Show, Melbourne's Gold one oh four point three.

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Speaker 2: I've just given a young rio, youngest member of the

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Speaker 2: team this article about his granddad and all the things

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Speaker 2: he invented. I think it's demotivated him, you know because

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Speaker 2: if his reading the article about his granddad, Dr Ernest

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Speaker 2: Smithers invented many things spermacide, the truth, life, truth slice,

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Speaker 2: bread knife, some surfboard that helped thousands of people learn

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Speaker 2: wouldn't be working. His grandad used to give away the rights.

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Speaker 2: He didn't care about any.

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Speaker 3: Of it, so he may Yeah, he's not quite a

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Speaker 2: Then this morning. He's coming into work here with.

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Speaker 3: Choosing Instagram filters.

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Speaker 2: All right, so we're asking your Nan and granddad. They're

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Speaker 2: four three. Good morning, Tim, morning Christian. Yeah, we're all good.

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Speaker 2: So Nano Granddad, what's the story about.

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Speaker 4: Then? Then back in early mid twenties early thirties, her

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Speaker 4: next door neighbor was the infamous Squizy.

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Speaker 2: Tailor him fixed in the underworld, Yes, mat, And.

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Speaker 4: When the police would come to raid him, he'd have

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Speaker 4: like a booky bag full of his books and what

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Speaker 4: have you, and he'd throw that over the fence. Then

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Speaker 4: had come out, grabbed their bag, take it inside until

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Speaker 2: Nan was running with Squizy Taylor. She was part of

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Speaker 4: Oh basically, yeah, Well, her nickname was Coiny because she

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Speaker 4: So yeah, so I'm tipping a bit of an accessory

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Speaker 2: Is she alive? Now?

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Speaker 4: No, she's fast on me.

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Speaker 2: You can tell us. Otherwise Nana is going to come

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Speaker 3: Continue mouth shut.

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Speaker 2: And Tim a lot the way that you said that

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Speaker 2: when Squizzy Telly was bags full of books, I don't

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Speaker 2: think he had his books, Harry Potter books.

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Speaker 4: I think that his accounting books.

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Speaker 2: Gotcha, Tim. That's a great one. Thank you very much

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Speaker 2: for sharing. No worries granted. That's a great one. Thank you, Gavin.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, morning, Christian, good morning. How are you mate?

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Speaker 5: I'm pretty good? Thank you?

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Speaker 2: Right? Okay, so we talked about Nano grandad and their

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Speaker 2: claim to fame. My great grandfather, great great grandfather, right,

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Speaker 2: and what did your great grandfather do? What was his

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Speaker 2: claim to He had.

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Speaker 5: One of the first titanium hip implants?

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Speaker 2: Cool? When was this? Do you know what the year was?

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Speaker 5: I'm not one hundred percent sure, but i've when he

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Speaker 5: was cremated, that was saved and I've actually got it

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Speaker 5: right here in front of me.

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Speaker 2: What Gavin, First of all, how old are you mate?

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Speaker 5: I'm thirteen?

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Speaker 2: Right, thirteen? So you're getting ready for school? Yes, And

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Speaker 2: hip is going to come in handy? So where is

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Speaker 2: where is this hip? Normally kept at home?

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Speaker 5: I've got it on So my great grandfather's desk and

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Speaker 5: my dad it's just in the living room and we

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Speaker 2: Oh that's awesome. So you're actually holding it right now, mate, A, yes,

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Speaker 2: you've got to send us a photo. We've got to

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Speaker 2: see a photos. So this is Australia's first hip transplant.

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Speaker 5: Oh soy again England. This just before he it was

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Speaker 2: Right, Okay, that's an incredible thing. So, but what a

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Speaker 2: strange thing to keep someone's here? Yes, do you use

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Speaker 3: A right, it's a point to when you get girls over.

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Speaker 2: That's my grandpa's hip, all right, Gavin, thank you very

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Speaker 2: much for giving us a call. Okay, thanks for coming

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Speaker 2: Christia, My mum Lenny Page. Her grandfather was part of

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Speaker 2: That is quite an amazing story there, that's awesome. Let's

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Speaker 2: good morning, Good morning, Kristen. So what are we talking here,

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Speaker 2: Nano granddad?

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Speaker 6: Well, both really. I didn't know until my grandma passed

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Speaker 6: was the famous inventor Henry Sutton.

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Speaker 2: Now what did Henry Sutton give the world?

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Speaker 6: Oh, the telephone. He helped Alexander Graham Bell with the telephone, television,

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Speaker 6: the founder of the Iric Beny, many things.

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Speaker 2: It's quite a CV here. Let's slow it down. So

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Speaker 2: Graham Alexander Belt, famous for inventing the telephone. I didn't

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Speaker 3: Or someone's going to be on the other end of

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Speaker 2: I guess what was your role in it? Won't Y's cool?

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Speaker 2: Somebody Dave? Is it you, Alexander? That's incredible? So how

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Speaker 2: come he was doing all this? Where was this?

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Speaker 6: This is all actually in Ballarat? So yeah, he was

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Speaker 6: doing all of this from Ballarat.

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Speaker 3: Wait, the telephone wasn't invented.

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Speaker 6: In Ballarat though, I actually think that the very first

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Speaker 6: telephone call was made in Ballarat.

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Speaker 3: Nodding, I've never heard that.

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Speaker 2: The world's first telephone call was made in Ballarat.

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Speaker 6: Yep, and Nikola Telsa actually visited him in Ballarat too.

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Speaker 2: I mean Ballarat obviously famous as Sonym is the gold there.

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Speaker 2: Now I'm going to have to google this because for

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Speaker 6: I know. I used to go to school as a

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Speaker 6: invented the telephone, and I got bullied and told it no,

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Speaker 6: it was Alexander Graham Bell and then from then on

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Speaker 6: I just never spoke of my stop it, stop it.

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Speaker 3: With your phone shakey. Well, well essentially did the same

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Speaker 2: Us, because historically it's always been about England and Graham

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Speaker 2: Alexander Bell. But so have you got any evidence of this,

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Speaker 2: I mean I'm not well yeah, no.

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Speaker 5: No, definitely.

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Speaker 6: So I also found out there was a whole heap

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Speaker 6: pretty much reviving his legacy. And a cousin of mine, Lorraine,

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Speaker 6: has just written a book on him called The Humble

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Speaker 6: Inventor and beautiful title.

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Speaker 2: I love that title. So remind us again then, so

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Speaker 2: having involved in the invention of the lecture telephone, you

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Speaker 2: said the RACV as well.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, he was actually the founder of the rac V

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Speaker 6: and he drove one of the first motor vehicles from

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Speaker 2: That is incredible. And what was this about the lift

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Speaker 2: as well? First left?

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Speaker 6: Yeah, his mother was pre Siek. She actually owned a

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Speaker 6: music store in Ballarat, so he and they had a

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Speaker 6: he invented the very first elevator.

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Speaker 2: This is incredible. I mean what are you going to do?

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Speaker 2: You get a bit bored after doing the old telephone

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Speaker 2: right and setting up the R A c V, so

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Speaker 2: Vineland grammarphones. So he decided to you know, bord on

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Speaker 5: This is.

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Speaker 6: He also invented a battery light system that helped miners

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Speaker 6: time the two of the founding Wolfs of Wall Street

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Speaker 6: offered him as much money as he would like for

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Speaker 6: that invention, and he didn't takehim up on it because

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Speaker 6: he believes that Payton's like his sciences to the people

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Speaker 6: and even never really painted anything.

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Speaker 3: What a noble the humble inventor.

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Speaker 2: Kristen. An amazing story, so many moments in that. Thank

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Speaker 2: you so much for giving us the cool, brilliant stuff,

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Speaker 2: no worries. Thank you so, Henry Sutton.

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Speaker 6: Henry Sutton look him up.

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Speaker 3: On the City of the Future at Last Century

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Speaker 1: The Christian O'Connell breakfast Show, Melbourne's Gold one oh four

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