Telecommunications began to take on special relevance in the 19th century with the invention of the telegraph, although ...

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THIS book covers most of the ground relating to telephony from its earliest stages to the present time. It may, indeed, be regarded as a “Short History” of telephony, and, as a matter of fact, the ...

Though Joseph Henry earned his fame as the first director of the Smithsonian Institute, he was in many ways the telephone's first and best advocate. Alexander Graham Bell himself said as much when he ...

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