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A phone of our own : the deaf insurrection against Ma Bell / Harry G. Lang.
Lippincott Library HE8846.A55 L35 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lang, Harry G.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American Telephone and Telegraph Company.
- Telecommunications devices for deaf people--United States--History.
- Telecommunications devices for deaf people.
- Telephone--United States--Emergency reporting systems--History.
- Telephone.
- History.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 242 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : Gallaudet University Press, 2000.
- Summary:
- Lang, a professor for the National Technical Institute for the Deaf, tells about how three enterprising deaf men--Robert Weitbrecht, James Marsters, and Andrew Saks--fought telephone monopolies and bureaucracies and overcame technical difficulties to develop a phone deaf people can use, one that converts sounds into text. Photos.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-230) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1563680904
- OCLC:
- 43599157
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