Telegraph and Telephone Networks: Groundbreaking Developments in American Communications (America's Industrial Society in the 19th Century)
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Book
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ISBN 10
0823942791
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9780823942794
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Publication Year
2004
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Pages
32
Description
In 1848, it could take more than a month for a letter from New York to be delivered to California. By 1861, more than 2,000 telegraph offices dotted cities and towns throughout the United States. Telegraph messages could reach their destinations within hours. In 1876, when Alexander Graham Bell offered to sell his new invention--the telephone--to the Telegraph Company, it declined, calling the telephone a toy. By 1900, there were 800,000 telephones in the country. - from Amzon
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