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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Lang, Harry G. Phone of our own. Washington, D.C. : Gallaudet University Press, 2000 (OCoLC)606356621 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Harry G Lang |
| ISBN: | 1563680904 9781563680908 |
| OCLC Number: | 43599157 |
| Description: | xv, 242 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | 1. A Chance Encounter -- 2. Up the Mountainside -- 3. Something Old, Something New -- 4. The Corporate Windmill -- 5. The Frustration Grows -- 6. Teletypewriters for the Deaf, Inc -- 7. Change Agents -- 8. The Modem War -- 9. Foreign Affairs -- 10. Revolutions -- 11. Bridges -- 12. Changing of the Guard -- 13. Legacy -- Appendix. A Concise History of the TTY. |
| Responsibility: | Harry G. Lang. |
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The best parts of this well-researched book describe the talents and personalities of the major players and the eventual cooperation from many sources that has allowed the deaf to enhance their personal, social, and professional lives by using a "phone." This account chronicles a most important leap for deaf communication from the 1960s through the 1990s, of which many of the hearing population are unaware. Read more...
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