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The history of the telephone (1910)

Casson, Herbert Newton, 1869- · Chicago, A.C. McClurg & Co. · leaf 178

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iny electric lamps and nerved with as muchwire as would reach from New York to Berlin.It may cost as much as a thousand pianos or asmuch as three square miles of farms in Indiana.The ten thousand wire hairs of its head are notonly numbered, but enswathed in silk, andcombed out in so marvellous a… … HACK SKCTION OF MODKKN SWITCllBOAKI) THE HISTORY OF THE TELEPHONE red, must study the fantastic coiffure of a tele-phone Switchboard. If there were no switchboard, there would stillbe telephones, but not a telephone system. Toconnect five thousand people by telephone re-quires five thousand wires…

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