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Category : Telephone
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Bell Telephone News
Author: The Telephone News
Author: Bell Telephone News
Author: The Telephone Book
Author: H. M. BoettingerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bell, Alexander Graham, 1847-1922
Languages : en
Pages : 189
Book Description
The Multiple Telegraph
Author: Alexander Graham BellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Telegraph
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
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.
Exploding the Phone
Author: Phil LapsleyPublisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN: 0802193757
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
“A rollicking history of the telephone system and the hackers who exploited its flaws.” —Kirkus Reviews, starred review Before smartphones, back even before the Internet and personal computers, a misfit group of technophiles, blind teenagers, hippies, and outlaws figured out how to hack the world’s largest machine: the telephone system. Starting with Alexander Graham Bell’s revolutionary “harmonic telegraph,” by the middle of the twentieth century the phone system had grown into something extraordinary, a web of cutting-edge switching machines and human operators that linked together millions of people like never before. But the network had a billion-dollar flaw, and once people discovered it, things would never be the same. Exploding the Phone tells this story in full for the first time. It traces the birth of long-distance communication and the telephone, the rise of AT&T’s monopoly, the creation of the sophisticated machines that made it all work, and the discovery of Ma Bell’s Achilles’ heel. Phil Lapsley expertly weaves together the clandestine underground of “phone phreaks” who turned the network into their electronic playground, the mobsters who exploited its flaws to avoid the feds, the explosion of telephone hacking in the counterculture, and the war between the phreaks, the phone company, and the FBI. The product of extensive original research, Exploding the Phone is a groundbreaking, captivating book that “does for the phone phreaks what Steven Levy’s Hackers did for computer pioneers” (Boing Boing). “An authoritative, jaunty and enjoyable account of their sometimes comical, sometimes impressive and sometimes disquieting misdeeds.” —The Wall Street Journal “Brilliantly researched.” —The Atlantic “A fantastically fun romp through the world of early phone hackers, who sought free long distance, and in the end helped launch the computer era.” —The Seattle Times
Engineering and Operations in the Bell System
Author: AT & T Bell Laboratories. Technical Publication DepartmentPublisher:
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Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 910
Book Description
Southern Telephone News
Author: Alexander Graham Bell
Author: Edwin S. GrosvenorPublisher: New Word City
ISBN: 1612309569
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
". . . 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.