The Birth and Babyhood of the Telephone
by Thomas Augustus Watson
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About this eBook
- Author
- Watson, Thomas Augustus, 1854-1934
- Credits
- Produced by Stephen Hutcheson and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- TK: Technology: Electrical, Electronics and Nuclear engineering
- Subject
- Telephone -- History
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 54506
- Release Date
- April 7, 2017
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.The BIRTH and BABYHOOD OF THE TELEPHONE
- 2.Biography of THOMAS A. WATSON — The Birth and Babyhood of the Telephone — The Williams’ Electrical Workshop — Studies and Experiments — Experience with Inventors — The “Harmonic Telegraph” — Bell’s Theory of Transmitting Speech — June 2, 1875 — The Telephone Born — Realization — The First Telephone Line — Mr. Watson Heard the First Sentence Ever Spoken Over the Telephone — The Centennial Exposition — Experimentation — “Talking” from Boston to Cambridge — Our Many Visitors — A “Wireless Telephone” — Telephone Installations — Financial Problems — Leasing Instruments a Far-Sighted Policy — Telephone Lectures — My Telephone Entertainers — First Sound-Proof Booth — “The Supposititious Mr. Watson” — An Exhibition in Lawrence — Waiting for Watson — WAITING FOR WATSON — My Last Public Appearance — The “Gower-Bell” Telephone — Developing a Calling Apparatus; the Watson “Buzzer” — “Williams’ Coffins” — The Blake Transmitter — Wire Troubles — Memories — The Coming of Theodore N. Vail — The Bell System — Turning to Other Activities — My Greatest Pride — Early Chronology of the Telephone — Telephone Milestones — BELL SYSTEM STATISTICS — Footnotes
- 3.Transcriber’s Notes
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