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American youths to-day are given, if of a mechanical turn of mind, to amateur telegraphy or telephony, but seldom, if ever, have to make any part of the system constructed. In Edison's boyish days it was quite different, and telegraphic supplies were hard to obtain. But he and his chum had a line between their homes, built of common stove-pipe wire. The insulators were bottles set on nails driven into trees and short poles.
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Frank Lewis Dyer was the General Counsel for The Edison Laboratory and Allied Interests. Thomas Commerford Martin was the Ex-President of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers.
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- PublisherEcho Library
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 1406827029
- ISBN 13 9781406827026
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages508
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