IN connexion with the centenary address on “Alexander Graham Bell and the Invention of the Telephone”given before the Royal of Edinburgh by Prof. G. W. O. Howe, an abridgment of which was published in ...

Though Joseph Henry earned his fame as the first director of the Smithsonian Institute, he was in many ways the telephone's first and best advocate. Alexander Graham Bell himself said as much when he ...

THIS book covers most of the ground relating to telephony from its earliest stages to the present time. It may, indeed, be regarded as a “Short History” of telephony, and, as a matter of fact, the ...

On Oct. 9, 1876, Alexander Graham Bell made a telephone call to his assistant a few miles away — the first demonstration of ...

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