Our world is full of the unexplainable.

And if history is an open book, all of these amazing tales are right there on display,

just waiting for us to explore.

Welcome to the Cabinet of Curiosity's.

When it comes to the invention of the telegraph, one name stands above the rest.

Julielmo Marconi.

Marconi was an inventor who revolutionized the wireless telegraph and laid the foundation

for the phones we hold in our hands today.

But another man had caught a glimpse of the telegraph system long before Marconi, about

3,000 years before him.

In fact, James Campbell bestsley was in shorts and explorer.

However, one look at his accomplishments and he starts to sound more like a myth than

a man.

And yet he and his exploits seemed to have faded into obscurity.

Bestley was born in London in 1874.

At least, that's what he liked to tell people.

He actually had been born in Australia, but that was the thing about James Bestley.

He enjoyed a good story.

He traveled to London later in life to receive an Ivy League education in metallurgy,

but he didn't finish.

Optine instead to travel the world and make a little money along the way.

Right 1903, however, the only thing he'd seen was the inside of his cell.

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