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Author Brooks, John, 1920-1993.

Title Telephone : the first hundred years / by John Brooks
Edition First edition
Published New York : Harper & Row, [1976]
©1976

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Description xii, 369 pages, 16 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, facsimiles, portraits ; 24 cm
Contents The Collossus of talk -- Beginings -- Through the valley -- God's electric clerk -- "Both phones" -- A big man -- Trial by combat -- Tiger and throughbred -- Putting razzle-dazzle in Ma Bell -- Days of wrath -- Scandal and a lawsuit -- Toward a new century -- Notes -- Index
Summary "The wondrous invention that changed a world and spawneda corporate giant"--Jacket subtitle
Notes "Portions of this book originally appeared in 'Forbes' magazine."--t.p. verso
"Published simultaneously in Canada by Fitzhenry & Whiteside, Toronto"--t.p. verso
"The wondrous invention that changed a world and spawned a corporate giant"--cover
Includes index
Includs bibliographical references (347-355)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Subject American Telephone and Telegraph Company.
Telephone -- United States -- History.
Telephone companies -- United States -- History.
LC no. 75023874
ISBN 0060105402