The telephone
Subtitle: the life story of a technology
By: David Mercer
Series: Greenwood technographies; Greenwood technographies
Publisher: Greenwood Press; ABC-CLIO, LLC
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Westport, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 151
ISBN-13: 9780313024733
Subjects: Telephone; History; Telegraph; Cell phones; Social aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [139]-145) and index.

Electronic reproduction. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2007. Available via the World Wide Web. Access is limited to subscribers of ebooks.greenwood.com.
Table of contents: title: Timeline; title: 1. The invention and development of the telegraph, 1780s-1870s; title: 2. The invention of the telephone, 1876; title: 3. From electric toy to business tool, 1876-1893; title: 4. Expansion, competition, and the remaking of the Bell monopoly, 1893-1918; title: 5. Consolidation in the interwar period, 1918-1945; title: 6. The calm before the storm, 1945-1970s; title: 7. Stormy weather, telecommunications deregulation, and the new digital world, 1970s-; title: 8. The global mobile, 1980s-; title: 9. Mobile cultures, 1990s-; title: Glossary.