Old Telephones (Shire Library) - Softcover
From its demonstration to Queen Victoria in 1878, through the bake light models of the 1920s and '30s to the chic plastic designs of the 1970s and '80s, Andrew Emmerson traces the evolution of the humble telephone over more than an a century. Magneto, skeleton and candlestick telephones accompany the National Telephone Company, telephone kiosks and railway platform telephones in this fascinating history of Alexander Graham Bell's most famous invention.
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Andrew Emmerson is a seasoned writer on technical and historical subjects. He is the author of Old Televisions, The London Underground, and Discovering Subterrranean London.
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- PublisherShire
- Publication date2010
- ISBN 10 0852637810
- ISBN 13 9780852637814
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages32
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