The Telephone
Subtitle: an historical anthology
By: edited by George Shiers ; with an introd. by Elliot N. Sivowitch.
Contributors: Shiers, George.
Series: Historical studies in telecommunications
Publisher: Arno Press
Published: 1977
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 400
Subjects: Telephone -- History
Description: ca. 400 p. : 26 cm
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Reprint of 23 articles published in various journals between 1877 and 1968.
Table of contents: title: Watson, T. A. How Bell invented the telephone.; title: Bell, A. G. Researches in telephony.; title: Gray, E. Experimental researches in electro-harmonic telegraphy and telephony.; title: Taylor, L. W. The untold story of the telephone.; title: Jehl, F. Edison and the telephone.; title: Dolbear, A. E. Researches in telephony.; title: Hughes, D. E. On the physical action of the microphone.; title: Urbanitzky, A. R. V. The telephone.; title: Anthony, W. A. Transatlantic telephoning.; title: King, W. J. The development of electrical technology in the 19th century.; title: Lawson, R. A history of automatic telephony.; title: Shaw, T. The conquest of distance by wire telephony.; title: Fleming, J. A. Telephones.; title: Denman, R. P. G. Electrical communication.; title: Jewett, F. B. The telephone switchboard.; title: Langdon, W. C. Myths of telephone history.; title: Jewett, F. B. A quarter century of transcontinental telephony.; title: Gray, G. H. The evolution of wire transmission.; title: Angwin, A. S. Graham Bell, pioneer.; title: Martin, W. H. Seventy-five years of the telephone.; title: Kelly, M. J. ... and others. A transatlantic telephone cable.; title: Hoth, D. F. The tl carrier system.; title: Carson, D. N. The evolution of picturephone service.