The Telephone and Its Several Inventors
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-0-7864-2609-6 (ISBN)
On March 7, 1876, the U.S. Patent Office issued to a young inventor named Alexander Graham Bell what is arguably the most valuable patent ever: entitled "improvements in telegraphy," in truth it secured for Bell the basic principles involved in a telephone.
On the same day that Bell filed his patent application, a caveat (a preliminary patent document) was filed by Elisha Gray. This coincidence sparked the first of many debates over whether Bell was the true inventor of the telephone. In the early 1860s Johann Phillipp Reis developed a version of the instrument, but his claims against Bell were hampered by the bungling of his lawyers in demonstrating his instrument in court. This work is a first look at the many men who developed the telephone and an examination of their claims against Bell's patent. A lay description of the phone is also provided, as well as a history of the development of the telephone system.
Lewis Coe of Crown Point, Indiana, is also the author of Wireless Radio (1996) and The Telegraph (1993).
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Telephone Chronology viii
Introduction
1. The Patent
2. The Poor Schoolmaster
3. Yellow Breeches Creek
4. Under Pressure
5. Inventors Galore!
6. A Great Undertaking
7. Long Distance
8. A Man from Oberlin
9. Western Union
10. The Military Telephone
11. Down on the Farm
12. Collecting Telephones
13. Hackers and Phreaks
14. Over the Waves
15. The Singing Wires
16. How They Worked
17. The New Kids on the Block
18. Conclusion
Appendices
1. Cities with Independent Telephone Companies
2. Cities That Once Had Independent Telephone Companies
3. Associations and Publications Related to Telephony
4. Insulator Manufacturers in the United States
5. Telephone Manufacturers
6. Some Communications Museums in the United States
7. Affidavits of Zenas Fisk Wilber
8. Affidavits of Alexander Graham Bell in Reply to That of Zenas Fisk Wilber
9. The Untold Story of the Telephone
10. Alexander Graham Bell’s Original Patent Application, 1876
11. Alexander Graham Bell’s Patent Application, 1877
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 31.1.2006 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 53 photos, appendices, glossary, bibliography, index |
| Verlagsort | Jefferson, NC |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 322 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte |
| Technik ► Nachrichtentechnik | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-7864-2609-8 / 0786426098 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-7864-2609-6 / 9780786426096 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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