With foreword by the Smithsonian Institutions's Dr. Bernard S. Finn
Expanded and revised edition of the 1995 that has become the standard reference for collectors and professionals. Now includes Automatic Electric Co., thus covering the top four manufacturers during the developing period.
Old Time Telephones traces the development of the telephone from Alexander Graham Bell to 1984, when the Bell system was broken up.Fundamental engineering principles, design concepts and historical facts are interwoven in the fascinating and down-to-earth context of antique telephones.This book is brimming with information gleaned from the author's painstaking measurements on working specimens and research of historical archives.
Robert V. Bruce, Pulitzer Prize winner and author of Bell: Alexander Graham Bell and the Conquest of Solitude, writes that "Mr. Meyer's book is a stunning achievement in research, analysis, exposition and design."
Prof. Roger Clery of Roosevelt University says “Every library in the U.S. should have a copy of Old-Time Telephones; this is the definitive work and vital to the preservation and restoration of our technological heritage.”
Peg Chronister, the late curator of The Museum of Independent Telephony, said that “It is clear, concise and so worded that you don’t have to be an engineer to understand it.”
