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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 12, 2001
Page
24
A compact history of telephone evolution from in handsets to desk sets and push-button dialing. It notes the first words over the wire, the change to built in wall sets, and operator signaling. It covers early satellites, fiber optics, and mobile and internet linked communications.
A playful note lists Mini Spy and Basset Brown using the telephone, an invention by Alexander Graham Bell, while weaving in a carrot word, a sleeping moon, and items like pencil, strawberry, saw, pumpkin, sailboat, and bell.
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