Maybe it was that at one time, but these days it is passed off as a factual event along with the false story about Archimedes' Eureka, the false story about Alb

Maybe it was that at one time, but these days it is passed off as a factual event along with the false story about Archimedes' Eureka, the false story about Albert Einstein failing math, Thomas Edison inventing the light bulb, Henry Ford inventing the assembly line, etc. The popular lies in the history of science and tech are endemic.