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Title: The history of the telephone
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Casson, Herbert Newton, 1869-
Subjects: Telephone
Publisher: Chicago, A.C. McClurg & Co.
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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peo-ple, so that there are as many people talking bywire as there were in the whole city of New Yorkin the Revolutionary period. Even this is onlythe dawn of the days business. By half-pasteight it is doubled; by nine it is trebled; by ten itis multiphed sixfold; and by eleven the roar hasbecome an incredible babel of one hundred andeighty thousand conversations an hour, withfifty new voices clamoring at the exchanges everysecond. This is the peak of the load. It is the top-most pinnacle of talk. It is the utmost degree ofservice that the telephone has been required togive in any city. And it is as much a worldswonder, to men and women of imagination, asthe steel mills of Homestead or the turbineleviathans that curve across the Atlantic Oceanin four and a half days. As to the men who built it up: Charles F.Cutler died in 1907, but most of the others arestill alive and busy. Union N. Bethell, now inCutlers place at the head of the New YorkCompany, has been the operating chief for (188)
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FIIEUF.RICK 1. FISH THE HISTORY OF THE TELEPHONE eighteen years. He is a man of shrewdness andsympathy, with a rare sagacity in solving knottyproblems, a president of the new type, whoregards his work as a sort of obligation he owes tothe pubUc. And just as foreigners go to Pitts-burg to see the steel business at its best; just asthey go to Iowa and Kansas to see the NewFarmer, so they make pilgrimages to Bethellsoffice to learn the profession of telephony. This unparalleled telephone system of NewYork grew up without having at any time therivalry of competition. But in many other citiesand especially in the Middle West, there sprangup in 1895 a medley of independent companies.The time of the original patents had expired, andthe Bell Companies found themselves freed fromthe expense of htigation only to be snarled up ina tangle of duplication. In a few years therewere six thousand of these httle Robinson Crusoecompanies. And by 1901 they had put in usemore than a million telephones and

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