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Genre/Form: | patents Biographies History Patents Brevets d'invention Biography |
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Named Person: | Alexander Graham Bell; Elisha Gray; Alexander Graham Bell; Elisha Gray; Alexander Graham Bell; Elisha Gray; Alexander Graham Bell; Elisha Gray |
Material Type: | Biography, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Seth Shulman |
ISBN: | 9780393062069 0393062066 9780393333688 039333368X |
OCLC Number: | 154706852 |
Description: | 256 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
Contents: | Playing telephone -- Disconnected -- On the hook -- Calling home -- No answer -- Operator assistance -- Clear reception -- Person-to-person -- Interference -- Caller I.D. -- Tapping the phone -- Bad connection -- On the line -- Call waiting -- Party line -- Conference call. |
Responsibility: | Seth Shulman. |
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Abstract:
"A stellar example of historical investigation at its probing best."-Chuck Leddy, Boston Globe
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"Starred Review. Rewrites history even as it immediately lures readers with scandal and iconoclasm." -- Booklist "A portrait of the thrilling era of innovation in which Bell lived....Succeeds splendidly as an edge-of-your seat historical tale." -- Marjorie Kehe - Christian Science Monitor "A great tale of historic detection." -- New Scientist "A dramatic probe into a shocking intellectual theft...the skillful, polished writing makes century-old events spring to life." -- Publishers Weekly Read more...
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- Bell, Alexander Graham, -- 1847-1922.
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- Telephone -- Patents.
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