Acknowledgments                6

Chapter One   The Invention                       7

Chapter Two   The First Telephones

Bell vs. Western Union       12

Coffins                                17

Switchboards                       22

String Phones                     24

Vanities                              29

Chapter Three Wooden Wall Telephones   31

Chapter Four   Pay Phones                          58

Chapter Five   Intercoms                             70

Chapter Six     Upright Desk Stands

or "Candlesticks"                 85

Chapter Seven Cradle Telephones

and Color Phones              120

Chapter Eight Novelty Telephones           141

Chapter Nine  Memorabilia                       146

Chapter Ten    List of Companies             158

Chapter Eleven List of Clubs, Telephone

Pioneers of America          174

Bibliography                      175

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