Old Telephones

(Paperback)

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From its demonstration to Queen Victoria in 1878, through the Bakelite models of the 1920s and 30s to the chic plastic designs of the 1970s and 80s, Andrew Emmerson traces the evolution of the humble telephone over more than an a century. Magneto, skeleton and candlestick telephones accompany the National Telephone Company, telephone kiosks and railway platform telephones in this fascinating history of Alexander Graham Bells most famous invention.

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Andrew Emmerson is a writer by profession and is just old enough to remember old candlestick telephones in use. His serious interest in telephones and telegraphs dates from the 1960s. Since then he has assembled a varied collection of old instruments and books about them. When he began collecting, old telephones were not fashionable and instruments could be bought cheaply, but although collectors have to pay more these days he feels that old technology deserves wider appreciation. When he is not writing and broadcasting on the subject of today's high-tech wizardry, Andrew Emmerson enjoys discovering the history of the inventions which came before this, also restoring and reviving equipment based on these older technologies.