Author: George Bartlett PrescottPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Telephone
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
Bell's Electric Speaking Telephone
Author: George Bartlett PrescottPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Telephone
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
Bell's Electric Speaking Telephone
Author: George Bartlett PrescottPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Telephone
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
Great Inventors and Their Inventions
Author: Frank Puterbaugh BachmanPublisher:
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Category : Inventions
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Nine remarkable men produced inventions that changed the world. The printing press, the telephone, powered flight, recording and others have made the modern world what it is. But who were the men who had these ideas and made reality of them? As David Angus shows, they were very different quiet, boisterous, confident, withdrawn but all had a moment of vision allied to single-minded determination to battle through numerous prototypes and produced something that really worked. It is a fascinating account for younger listeners.
The Multiple Telegraph
Author: Alexander Graham BellPublisher:
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Category : Telegraph
Languages : en
Pages : 34
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The Telephone Book
Author: Avital RonellPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803289383
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
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.
The Telephone Patent Conspiracy of 1876
Author: A. Edward EvensonPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786462434
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
The invention of the telephone is a subject of great controversy, central is which is the patent issued to Alexander Graham Bell on March 7, 1876. Many problems and questions surround this patent, not the least of which was its collision in the Patent Office with a strangely similar invention by archrival Elisha Gray. A flood of lawsuits followed the patent's issue; at one point the government attempted to annul Bell's patent and launched an investigation into how it was granted. From court testimony, contemporary accounts, government documents, and the participants' correspondence, a fascinating story emerges. More than just a tale of rivalry between two inventors, it is the story of how a small group of men made Bell's patent the cornerstone for an emerging telephone monopoly. This book recounts the little-known story in full, relying on original documents (most never before published) to preserve the flavor of the debate and provide an authentic account. Among the several appendices is the "lost copy" of Bell's original patent, the document that precipitated the charge of fraud against the Bell Telephone Company.
The Speaking Telephone, Electric Light, and Other Recent Electrical Inventions
Author: George Bartlett PrescottPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
The History of the Telephone
Author: Herbert Newton CassonPublisher:
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Category : Telephone
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Fernsprechtechnik, Telefonie (Technik).
Scientists and Inventors
Author: Publisher: Macmillan Reference USA
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Alphabetical articles profile the life and work of notable scientists and inventors from antiquity to the present, beginning with Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz and concluding with the Wright Brothers.
The Telephone Gambit: Chasing Alexander Graham Bell's Secret
Author: Seth ShulmanPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 039333368X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Telephone.