Pat Flanagan
August, 1972
In 1962, Life magazine published a list of the 100 most important young men in America. They were mostly scientists--prodigies with computer minds whose genius would lift our technology and maintain it at a reassuringly advanced level. One of them was Pat Flanagan, a 17-year-old Texan who'd just invented something he called a "neurophone," which, he claimed, "transmits electrical messages--identical to those sounds generate--directly to the brain," allowing totally deaf peopl...
