Troublesome telephony: how users and non-users shaped the development of early British exchange telephony

When exchange telephony was first marketed to the British public by the early telephone companies in the late nineteenth century it was as an intuitive technology requiring no specialist knowledge or training. This has gone unquestioned in subsequent telephone historiography but, as this article dem...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dr Michael Kay
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Science Museum, London 2015-05-01
Series:Science Museum Group Journal
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Online Access:http://journal.sciencemuseum.org.uk/browse/issue-03/troublesome-telephony/