Beginnings of Telephony

No other work on the subject has superceded this volume in importance. Written with the full cooperation of the Bell interests, and solidly based upon primary documents, Beginnings of Telephony concentrates on the technical rather than business aspects of telephony and carries the study to the middle 1890s. Detailing the inception of the telephone, microphone transmitter, telephone cable, first underground cables, loaded lines, telephone switchboards and long-distance lines, this standard reference provides a solid insight into the formative decades of the telephone.Rhodes, Frederick L. is the author of 'Beginnings of Telephony', published 1974 under ISBN 9780405060571 and ISBN 0405060572.