The Telephone: An Account of the Phenomena of Electricity, Magnetism, and Sound, as Involved in its Action. With Directions for Making A Speaking Telephone.
The Telephone: An Account of the Phenomena of Electricity, Magnetism, and Sound, as Involved in its Action. With Directions for Making A Speaking Telephone.

The Telephone: An Account of the Phenomena of Electricity, Magnetism, and Sound, as Involved in its Action. With Directions for Making A Speaking Telephone.

  • Dolbear, A.E.
  • Boston: Lee & Shepard, Publishers 1877
  • Wheeler Gift 2071 (London reprint).

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FIRST EDITION, 16mo, pp. [3]-128, [2, ads]. Flyleaf and half-title sometime excised. Original brown cloth, boards blocked and lettered In black, spine lettered in black. First few leaves torn to gutter, some leaves a little creased. Somewhat rubbed, some wear to extremities, particularly spine-ends.

Notes

American inventor Amos Dolbear developed a telephone receiver with a fixed magnet some 11 years before Bell, but was unable to prove it, leading to a courtroom patent loss in 1881. He went on to patent his own system of wireless telegraphy 2 years later.

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