America calling : a social history of the telephone to 1940 / Claude S. Fischer.

The telephone looms large in our lives, as ever present in modern societies as cars and television. Claude Fischer presents the first social history of this vital but little-studied technology--how we encountered, tested, and ultimately embraced it with enthusiasm. Using telephone ads, oral historie...

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Main Author: Fischer, Claude S., 1948-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, 1992.
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