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American Experience; Telephone, The
01/17/1997

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- Series
- American Experience
- Program
- Telephone, The
- Program Number
905
- Series Description
Premiered October 1988 As television's longest-running, most-watched history series, American Experience brings to life the incredible characters and epic stories that helped form this nation. Now in its eighteenth season, the series has produced over 180 programs and garnered every major broadcast award. Series release date: 10/1988
- Program Description
To Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Watson, their contraption -- dubbed the "Harmonic Telegraph" -- was a sure fire moneymaker; to others, like Mark Twain, it was more toy than triumph. But the invention caught on and by 1900, New York Telephone alone had more than 6,000 "Hello Girls" working the lines in "operating rooms." The telephone had been transformed from novelty into necessity.
- Duration
00:56:46
- Asset Type
Broadcast program
- Media Type
Video
- Genres
- Documentary
- Topics
- History
- Citation
- Chicago: “American Experience; Telephone, The,” 01/17/1997, WGBH Media Library & Archives, accessed April 27, 2018, http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_F17A14CD869C4637BB8AA023F5F24936.
- MLA: “American Experience; Telephone, The.” 01/17/1997. WGBH Media Library & Archives. Web. April 27, 2018. <http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_F17A14CD869C4637BB8AA023F5F24936>.
- APA: American Experience; Telephone, The. Boston, MA: WGBH Media Library & Archives. Retrieved from http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_F17A14CD869C4637BB8AA023F5F24936