The History of the Telephone by Herbert N. Casson

Scanned by Charles Keller with OmniPage Professional OCR software THE HISTORY OF THE TELEPHONE BY HERBERT N. CASSON PREFACE Thirty-five short years, and presto! the newborn art of telephony is fullgrown. Three million telephones are now scattered abroad in foreign countries, and seven millions are massed here, in the land of its birth. So entirely