TSI, good point about the anachronism. That could very well point to a hoax, but it could also be an anachronistic translation — like I mentioned in my post, we still have no idea where MosNews and ralphmag.org got their English rendering from, and it\\\'s possible that there\\\'s some confusion in Russian between the electrical and optical telegraph [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_telegraph] — considering that an optical telegraphs would have likely been in use during Odoevsky\\\'s time. I encountered a similar anachronistic translation of Russian to English while reading Dostoeveky\\\'s Notes From Underground. In one text there was the phrase \\\"I am a retort made man\\\" and in another the same phrase was rendered \\\"I am a test-tube made man.\\\" No clue why. Test tubes existed in 1864, of course, but the idea of being a test-tube made man wouldn\\\'t have made sense the way it does today — at least I don\\\'t think so. Maybe if some of my Russian visitors return they\\\'ll give us some insight into the translation.

\"Retort\" is an older form of \"test-tube\" and your guessing is right that it\'s all about anachronisms. In the book there are talks about an artifically made man – out of a \"retort\" which is a that-time equivalent for test-tube (you can also consult Oxford dictionary on this – http://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/retort_2?view=uk – note the \"historical\" meaning)

\"Это\" more likely means \"this\" in this case – I used _it_ because the original URL was too long and would stretch the journal design enormously. In other cases as you may had noticed I just pasted URLs into the journal post.