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[TELEPHONY. BELL, Alexander Graham] The Telephone Company of Philadelphia. Bell’s Patent...Speaking Telephone -- Thomas E. Cornish, Manager... [Philadelphia?, ca. 1877]. 4 pages, 4to, even toning, several tears, minor loss at bottom of spine.
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[TELEPHONY. BELL, Alexander Graham] The Telephone Company of Philadelphia. Bell’s Patent...Speaking Telephone -- Thomas E. Cornish, Manager... [Philadelphia?, ca. 1877]. 4 pages, 4to, even toning, several tears, minor loss at bottom of spine.
A rare, early brochure for the Philadelphia Telephone Company, promoting the new and “astonishing... Speaking Telephone”
A rare and early piece of telephone advertising produced by The Telephone Company of Philadelphia. The early promotional copy is worth quoting: “Bell’s Speaking Telephone is attracting universal attention; in less than six months since its introduction, 5000 have been put to use in this country. No recent invention has been so well received by the public, and so fully endorsed by the Press--and no wonder, for the results are astonishing. With this simple instrument one can converse with another, though many miles may intervene. By connecting to a line wire, a Magneto Bell-Call and a Telephone, by turning a crank on the Bell-Call, a bell is rung at the place with which you wish to communicate, a reply given in the same way, then the movement of the switch puts the Telephone in circuit; you place one to your mouth, the other to your ear, ‘then talk’.”
Cornish, then offers a list of Philadelphia companies that have already “availed themselves of the advantages of the Speaking Telephone.” Cornish made the news in the autumn of 1877 when he successfully demonstrated the telephone’s usefulness in the Pennsylvania coal mines. (“Bell’s Telephone. – Successful Experiments at the Coal Mines – A Practical Illustration of its Value,” Philadelphia Inquirer 13 Oct. 1877, 2).
A rare, early brochure for the Philadelphia Telephone Company, promoting the new and “astonishing... Speaking Telephone”
A rare and early piece of telephone advertising produced by The Telephone Company of Philadelphia. The early promotional copy is worth quoting: “Bell’s Speaking Telephone is attracting universal attention; in less than six months since its introduction, 5000 have been put to use in this country. No recent invention has been so well received by the public, and so fully endorsed by the Press--and no wonder, for the results are astonishing. With this simple instrument one can converse with another, though many miles may intervene. By connecting to a line wire, a Magneto Bell-Call and a Telephone, by turning a crank on the Bell-Call, a bell is rung at the place with which you wish to communicate, a reply given in the same way, then the movement of the switch puts the Telephone in circuit; you place one to your mouth, the other to your ear, ‘then talk’.”
Cornish, then offers a list of Philadelphia companies that have already “availed themselves of the advantages of the Speaking Telephone.” Cornish made the news in the autumn of 1877 when he successfully demonstrated the telephone’s usefulness in the Pennsylvania coal mines. (“Bell’s Telephone. – Successful Experiments at the Coal Mines – A Practical Illustration of its Value,” Philadelphia Inquirer 13 Oct. 1877, 2).