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Mercer, David, Ph.D.
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Telephone -- History.
Telegraph -- History
Cell phones -- History.
Telephone -- Social aspects.
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The telephone : the ...
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The telephone : the life story of a technology / David Mercer.
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Mercer, David, Ph.D.
Westport, CN : Greenwood Press, 2006.
Subjects
Telephone -- History.
Telegraph -- History
Cell phones -- History.
Telephone -- Social aspects.
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http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0616/2006021452.html
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031333207X (alk. paper) :
9780313332074 (alk. paper)
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Greenwood technographies,
Description:
xxiv, 151 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents:
Timeline -- 1. The invention and development of the telegraph, 1780s-1870s -- 2. The invention of the telephone, 1876 -- 3. From electric toy to business tool, 1876-1893 -- 4. Expansion, competition, and the remaking of the Bell monopoly, 1893-1918 -- 5. Consolidation in the interwar period, 1918-1945 -- 6. The calm before the storm, 1945-1970s -- 7. Stormy weather, telecommunications deregulation, and the new digital world, 1970s- -- 8. The global mobile, 1980s- -- 9. Mobile cultures, 1990s- -- Glossary.
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