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The telephone : the life story of a technology
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The telephone : the life story of a technology

Author: David Mercer, Ph.D.
Publisher: Westport, CN : Greenwood Press, ©2006.
Series: Greenwood technographies
Edition/Format: Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: David Mercer, Ph.D.
ISBN: 031333207X 9780313332074
OCLC Number: 70232309
Description: xxiv, 151 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Timeline -- 1. The invention and development of the telegraph, 1780s-1870s -- 2. The invention of the telephone, 1876 -- 3. From electric toy to business tool, 1876-1893 -- 4. Expansion, competition, and the remaking of the Bell monopoly, 1893-1918 -- 5. Consolidation in the interwar period, 1918-1945 -- 6. The calm before the storm, 1945-1970s -- 7. Stormy weather, telecommunications deregulation, and the new digital world, 1970s- -- 8. The global mobile, 1980s- -- 9. Mobile cultures, 1990s- -- Glossary.
Series Title: Greenwood technographies
Responsibility: David Mercer.
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