The Story of Communication:

Telephone—Websites to Explore

• Napoleon’s secret weapon: http://http.cs.berkeley.edu/~randy/Courses/CS39C.S97/optical/optical.html
• Telegraph museums: http://www.chss.montclair.edu/~pererat/telegraph.html
• Telegraph history: http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/bltelegraph.htm
• Telegraph equipment inventors: http://www.telegraph-history.org/
• Western Union timeline: http://www.westernunion.com/info/aboutUsHistory.asp
• Atlantic cable and submarine telegraphy: http://www.atlantic-cable.com/
• Bell Labs: http://www.bell-labs.com/history/
• School science projects featured: http://atcaonline.com/phone/
• Technical history: http://www.privateline.com/TelephoneHistory/History1.htm
• Telephone history: http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/bltelephone.htm
• Cellphones and mobile phones: http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aa070899.htm
• History of Yellow Pages, phone exchanges, 911, etc.: http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/bltelephone4.htm
• All about pagers: http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blpager.htm
• Answering machine inventors: http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blansweringmachines.htm
• AT&T history site: http://www.att.com/spotlight/nethistory/
• Links to history sites: http://www.dmine.com/phworld/history/
• Old images: http://www.sandman.com/telhist.html
• Mobile phones: http://www.privateline.com/PCS/history.htm
• International phones: http://www.telephonetribute.com/international.html
• Phone booths and pay phones: http://www.telephonetribute.com/payphones.html

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