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Identifier: belltelephonevol21mag00amerrich (find matches)
Title: Bell telephone magazine
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: American Telephone and Telegraph Company American Telephone and Telegraph Company. Information Dept
Subjects: Telephone
Publisher: (New York, American Telephone and Telegraph Co., etc.)
Contributing Library: Prelinger Library
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Thom\s a. Watsons Notebook /,. ,7 BeWs young assistant kept a methodical record of their progress. ^;^J^;,/;.;f;^; .jf^ page is noted verbatim (he Jirst complete sentence of speech ever transmitted electrically can Telephone Historical Collection,*and this name was retained until itwas changed in 1933 to the American *See The American Telephone HistoricalCollection, Bell Telephone Quarterly. Jan-uary, 1924; The Growth of the Historical Col-lection, Quarterly, April, 1925. Telephone Historical Library. Theoriginal name was perhaps more sig-nificant than might appear on casualconsideration. The first and mostimportant task of the librarian wasobviously that of a collector. ^ux^^s^yj/r Tut/ y/^vJJ aAAo(/ aA/Axu.o&yn.cvi^ ffYo-^ ,it£> /^Vfda/—
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Introducing the Telephone in EnglandThese are extracts from a prospectus which Bell presented to British capitalists in 1878m the lower section is found his prophetic statement of the service which the telephone could render to mankind 248 The American Telephone Historical Library 249 For this function Mr. Langdon wasadmirably fitted. He was a collectorby instinct, and—so far as the collec-tion of historical data was concerned—a collector with a purpose. Alreadywell grounded in telephone history byreason of his activities as a writer onthe staff of the Information Depart-ment of the American Telephone andTelegraph Company, he knew whatwould, and what would not, be ofvalue to the collection he was to buildup, from the standpoint of its pur-poses as already outlined. -He had what amounted to a rever-ence for the great documents of tele-phone history: the Bell Patents; themortgage made by the mother ofEnos )\I. Barton in order that herson might purchase an interest inwhat later becam

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