| Description |
ix, 230 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
1. The patent -- 2. The poor schoolmaster -- 3. Yellow Breeches Creek -- 4. Under pressure -- 5. Inventors galore! -- 6. A great undertaking -- 7. Long distance -- 8. A man from Oberlin -- 9. Western Union -- 10. The military telephone -- 11. Down on the farm -- 12. Collecting telephones -- 13. Hackers and phreaks -- 14. Over the waves -- 15. The singing wires -- 16. How they worked -- 17. The new kids on the block -- 18. Conclusion -- Appendixes: -- 1. Cities with independent telephone companies -- 2. Cities that once had independent telephone companies -- 3. Associations and publications related to telephony -- 4. Insulator manufacturers in the United States -- 5. Telephone manufacturers -- 6. Some communications museums in the United States -- 7. Affidavits of Zenas Fisk Wilber -- 8. Affidavits of Alexander Graham Bell in reply to that of Zenas Fisk Wilber -- 9. The untold story of the telephone -- 10. Alexander Graham Bell's original patent application, 1876 -- 11. Alexander Graham Bell's patent application, 1877 |
| Analysis |
Telephones History |
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Telephones History |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (page 226) and index |
| Notes |
Also issued online |
| Subject |
Electrical engineers -- Biography.
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Telecommunications engineers -- Biography.
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Telephone systems -- History.
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| LC no. |
95013651 |
| ISBN |
0786401389 (lib. binding : alk. paper) |
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