The Magic of Communication: A tell-you-how story
- United States: Bell Telephone Company, 1938
United States: Bell Telephone Company, 1938. Very good to near-fine.. A promotional booklet for the Bell System, the famous telecommunications company founded by Alexander Graham Bell. Published for the general public, the booklet goes into minute detail explaining how telephone technology works, the history of telecommunications, and how the industry is moving forward in 1938. Includes photos of telephonists at the switchboard, people using the technology in their everyday lives, diagrams and charts. Includes a particularly humorous enlargement of molecules of air being spoken, anthropomorphized as little men rushing into a telephone receiver. Single vol. (8.75" by 5.75"), pp. 39, [1], stapled in original illus. wrps. Includes a fabulous bit of cover design: dozens of mischievous flying imps flying in and around a telephone, anthropomorphizing how the technology works.