The telephone
Subtitle: wiring America
By: by John Murphy.
Series: Building America : then and now
Publisher: Chelsea House Publishers
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781604130683
Subjects: Telephone -- United States; Telecommunication -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The dawn of telecommunications; title: Alexander Graham Bell and the harmonic telegraph; title: A neck-and-neck race; title: A cloud of suspicion; title: Selling the telephone and taking on a telegraph giant; title: Building a national and unified telephone network; title: From nationwide competition to coast-to-coast monopoly; title: An age of innovation; title: The telephone industry transformed.