The History Of The Telephone
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Author | : Claude S. Fischer |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 442 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0520086473 |
Annotation 'In his study of the telephone in American society, Fishcer confronts the most significant, but also the most difficult, question we can ask about a new technology--what differences did it make in the lives of its users?'Roland Marchand
Author | : Lewis Coe |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2006-01-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0786426098 |
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.
Author | : Avital Ronell |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 492 |
Release | : 1989-01-01 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 9780803289383 |
The telephone marks the place of an absence. Affiliated with discontinuity, alarm, and silence, it raises fundamental questions about the constitution of self and other, the stability of location, systems of transfer, and the destination of speech. Profoundly changing our concept of long-distance, it is constantly transmitting effects of real and evocative power. To the extent that it always relates us to the absent other, the telephone, and the massive switchboard attending it, plugs into a hermeneutics of mourning. The Telephone Book, itself organized by a "telephonic logic," fields calls from philosophy, history, literature, and psychoanalysis. It installs a switchboard that hooks up diverse types of knowledge while rerouting and jamming the codes of the disciplines in daring ways. Avital Ronell has done nothing less than consider the impact of the telephone on modern thought. Her highly original, multifaceted inquiry into the nature of communication in a technological age will excite everyone who listens in. The book begins by calling close attention to the importance of the telephone in Nazi organization and propaganda, with special regard to the philosophy of Martin Heidegger. In the Third Reich the telephone became a weapon, a means of state surveillance, "an open accomplice to lies." Heidegger, in Being and Time and elsewhere, elaborates on the significance of "the call." In a tour de force response, Ronell mobilizes the history and terminology of the telephone to explicate his difficult philosophy. Ronell also speaks of the appearance of the telephone in the literary works of Duras, Joyce, Kafka, Rilke, and Strindberg. She examines its role in psychoanalysis—Freud said that the unconscious is structured like a telephone, and Jung and R. D. Laing saw it as a powerful new body part. She traces its historical development from Bell's famous first call: "Watson, come here!" Thomas A. Watson, his assistant, who used to communicate with spirits, was eager to get the telephone to talk, and thus to link technology with phantoms and phantasms. In many ways a meditation on the technologically constituted state, The Telephone Book opens a new field, becoming the first political deconstruction of technology, state terrorism, and schizophrenia. And it offers a fresh reading of the American and European addiction to technology in which the telephone emerges as the crucial figure of this age.
Author | : Edwin S. Grosvenor |
Publisher | : New Word City |
Total Pages | : 177 |
Release | : 2016-05-13 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1612309569 |
". . . rarely have inventor and invention been better served than in this book." – New York Times Book Review Here, Edwin Grosvenor, American Heritage's publisher and Bell's great-grandson, tells the dramatic story of the race to invent the telephone and how Bell's patent for it would become the most valuable ever issued. He also writes of Bell's other extraordinary inventions: the first transmission of sound over light waves, metal detector, first practical phonograph, and early airplanes, including the first to fly in Canada. And he examines Bell's humanitarian efforts, including support for women's suffrage, civil rights, and speeches about what he warned would be a "greenhouse effect" of pollution causing global warming.
Author | : Herbert Newton Casson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 1910 |
Genre | : Telephone |
ISBN | : |
Fernsprechtechnik, Telefonie (Technik).
Author | : Zachary Kent |
Publisher | : Enslow Publishing |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780766021471 |
When John White returned to Roanoke Island in 1590, the English colony he had left there three years earlier was abandoned. The only traces of the 117 colonists were letters carved on trees. The search to discover the fate of the missing Roanoke Island settlers has gone on for over four hundred years. The mystery remains unsolved today. In The Mysterious Disappearance of Roanoke Colony in American History, an exciting addition to the "In American History" series, Zachary Kent examines the lost colony at Roanoke. Through fast-paced story telling and quotes from historic men and women, Kent helps readers understand the background and history of the Roanoke experiment. The author also discusses modern attempts to solve the disappearance. Book jacket.
Author | : Samuel Willard Crompton |
Publisher | : Infobase Publishing |
Total Pages | : 121 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Inventors |
ISBN | : 1438104324 |
Introduces the life and accomplishments of Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor most widely known for developing the telephone.
Author | : Susan E. Hamen |
Publisher | : Lerner Classroom |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1541512103 |
Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone or did he? Inventor Antonio Santi Giuseppe Meucci was also working on a telephone at the same time. Watch Meucci and Bell race to be first to the invention finish line.
Author | : Ithiel de Sola Pool |
Publisher | : Praeger |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
This book applies the approach of technology assessment to the telephone. The author's analysis forecasts the effect of the telephone on society and compares it with the reality. This book not only examines the social consequences of the telephone, but provides a model for future efficient assessments of new technologies. It documents a largely unknown piece of the history of American technology and anlayzes the requirements for success in technological forecasting.
Author | : Herbert N. Casson, Jr. |
Publisher | : 1st World Publishing |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2004-12 |
Genre | : Telephone |
ISBN | : 9781595406521 |
Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - Thirty-five short years, and presto! the newborn art of telephony is fullgrown. Three million telephones are now scattered abroad in foreign countries, and seven millions are massed here, in the land of its birth. So entirely has the telephone outgrown the ridicule with which, as many people can well remember, it was first received, that it is now in most places taken for granted, as though it were a part of the natural phenomena of this planet. It has so marvellously extended the facilities of conversation - that "art in which a man has all mankind for competitors" - that it is now an indispensable help to whoever would live the convenient life. The disadvantage of being deaf and dumb to all absent persons, which was universal in pre-telephonic days, has now happily been overcome; and I hope that this story of how and by whom it was done will be a welcome addition to American libraries.