Historic TELEPHONE INVENTION Alexander Graham Bell Invent - Prints 1877 Magazine - $379 - (Williamsport, PA)
Historic TELEPHONE INVENTION Alexander Graham Bell Invent - Prints 1877 Magazine (Note: additional images are located below the description) Offered is an original, historic, & collectible old magazine: SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, New York, March 31, 1877 * Alexander Graham Bell * Invention of the telephone A front page report headed: "The Telephone" begins: "We have already laid before our readers accounts of the wonderful performance of Professor Bells telephone, an instrument remarkable not merely for its phenomenal capabilities but also because of its having been brought to its present stage of development within the period which has elapsed since June last....Without undertaking to follow the inventor through his various improvements, it will suffice here to state the telephone has recently carried the human voice over a distance of 143 miles (from Boston to North Conway, N.H.), so that ordinary conversational tones uttered at one end were distinctly audible at the other..." with much more. The front page also includes a print showing Professor Bell lecturing on the telephone at Salem, Mass. on Feb. 12, as well as a group in the inventors study in Boston, receiving the transmission of his lecture. There is also a small inset of "The Telephone" and a diagram of the wiring that improved the tones. The report continues inside where there is a diagram showing the inside of the "sounding box". This is a significant issue marking the improvements in the telephone, first introduced the year prior. Sixteen pages, very nice condition. Please Note: All of our offerings are 100% authentic! We do not offer reprints or reproductions of any kind. They are guaranteed to be original! Shipping, Archival Storage Options, Certificates of Authenticity, About Us, and more... Shipping Policy... For this specific item, A U.S. winner pays $7.00 S&H. If multiple items are purchased and paid for simultaneously, the S&H will be calculated by using the highest items S&H as the base cost, and …
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