Invention of Telephone Shows Long Bell Efforts
The article traces the telephone’s development from early tin can "lovers telegraph" experiments to Wheatstone's 1819 instrument and Bell's electric phone. It notes Edison’s influence, US growth to 11 million telephones by 1919, and wireless advances including Lindbergh’s wireless call home. It highlights uses replacing telegraphy and central exchanges.
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Charles Wheatstone
London
Doctor Bell
Thomas A. Edison
United States
Athens Home Telephone Company
County telephone system gains roots in rural hubs
Extensive repairs at the Columbia theater on North Court street move toward reopening by mid September. The wraparound seating and widened center aisle transform the 1920s style interior as Elden Byrne reports, with a Wurlitzer organ and updated seating to modern standards.
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Jones
Columbia
North Court Street
Moving Picture House
Elden Byrne
Asmutt Wurlitzer
Love leads thirteenth Ohio city telephone project
John D. Love, a Columbus telephone engineer, completes the thirteenth site for Athens Home Telephone Co building in Ohio. Dr. C. L. Jones notes Love has solved the local company’s engineering problems for twenty years with the extensive underground cable system directed and laid out for the new building.
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C. L. Jones
Jones
Guysne Hess
Coon
New Marfield
Caroondale
Marshielad Telephone Co
Mears Count
Partleu
Darwin
Nelsonville
Ohio
Treacher
Athens Home Telephone Company
John D. Love
Columbus
Love
Mr. Love
Historic NY theater renovation details outlined
The article describes a theater in Nelsonville undergoing renovations with exit doors opened from fire escape, a rebuilt furnace room managed by W. C. Frum, and plans drawn by architect William Mills. Interior decoration by Harry Morenson includes gold and blue accents, with a glass partition at the right entrance and a reworked front.
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W. C. Frum
William Mills
Nelsonville
Byrne
Car Ely
Harry Mor- Helys Peterison
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