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The History of the Telephone

CHAPTER VIII
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The craze for "cheap and nasty" telephony is passing; and the idea that the telephone is above all else a SPEED instrument, is gaining ground.

A faster long-distance service, at double rates, is being well patronized.

Slow-moving races are learning the value of time, which is the first lesson in telephony.

Our reapers and mowers now go to seventy-five nations.

Our street cars run in all great cities.


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