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It is a time-saving, profanity-breeding, useful invention, and in America
to be found in all homes except parsonages. One of the very most useful of all inventions, but rendered almost worthless
& a cold & deliberate theft & swindle by the black scoundrelism
& selfishness of the companies of chartered robbers who conduct it. |
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| It is my heart-warm and world-embracing
Christmas hope and aspiration that all of us, the high, the low, the rich,
the poor, the admired, the despised, the loved, the hated, the civilized,
the savage, may eventually be gathered together in a heaven of everlasting
rest and peace and bliss, except the inventor of the telephone. - Letter to the Editor, New York Evening World, 23 December 1890 (Related resource: Letter from Mark Twain to Gardiner Hubbard, father-in-law of Alexander Graham Bell from the Library of Congress site.) |
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| Consider that a conversation by telephone
-- when you are simply sitting by and not taking any part in that conversation
-- is one of the solemnests curiosities of this modern life. - "A Telephonic Conversation," 1880 Confound a telephone, anyway. It is the very demon for conveying similarities of sound that are miracles of divergence from similarity of sense. - A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court |
Illustration
of earliest telephone from advertising art
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