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The telephone gambit : chasing Alexander Graham Bell's secret / Seth Shulman.
Van Pelt Library TK6018.B4 S58 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shulman, Seth.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bell, Alexander Graham, 1847-1922.
- Bell, Alexander Graham.
- Gray, Elisha, 1835-1901.
- Gray, Elisha.
- Telephone--History.
- Telephone.
- History.
- Telephone--Patents.
- Inventors--United States--Biography.
- Inventors.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Patents.
- Physical Description:
- 256 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : W. W. Norton & Co., [2008]
- Summary:
- Although Alexander Graham Bell is widely accepted as the father of the telephone (despite the fact that rival inventor Elisha Gray submitted a similar claim the same day Bell filed his patent), Schulman provides intriguing evidence questioning if the scales were deliberately tipped in Alexander's favor.--From amazon.com.
- Contents:
- 1 Playing Telephone 11
- 2 Disconnected 17
- 3 On the Hook 26
- 4 Calling Home 39
- 5 No Answer 50
- 6 Operator Assistance 63
- 7 Clear Reception 77
- 8 Person-to-Person 84
- 9 Interference 96
- 10 Caller I.D. 110
- 11 Tapping the Phone 126
- 12 Bad Connection 138
- 13 On the Line 147
- 14 Call Waiting 163
- 15 Party Line 179
- 16 Conference Call 198.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-242) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780393062069
- 0393062066
- OCLC:
- 154706852
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