A phone of our own : the deaf insurrection against Ma Bell /

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In 1964, of the more than 85 million telephones in the United States and Canada, less than one percent were used regularly by deaf people. If they didn't ask their hearing neighbors for help, they depended upon their hearing children, some as young as three years old, to act as intermediaries f...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Lang, Harry G. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Washington, D.C. : Gallaudet University Press, 2000.
Subjects:
American Telephone and Telegraph Company.
Telecommunications devices for the deaf > United States > History.
Telephone > United States > Emergency reporting systems > History.
Appareils de télécommunication pour personnes sourdes > États-Unis > Histoire.
Appels d'urgence > États-Unis > Histoire.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
Telecommunications devices for the deaf.
Telephone > Emergency reporting systems.
United States.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. A Chance Encounter
  • 2. Up the Mountainside
  • 3. Something Old, Something New
  • 4. The Corporate Windmill
  • 5. The Frustration Grows
  • 6. Teletypewriters for the Deaf, Inc
  • 7. Change Agents
  • 8. The Modem War
  • 9. Foreign Affairs
  • 10. Revolutions
  • 11. Bridges
  • 12. Changing of the Guard
  • 13. Legacy
  • Appendix: A Concise History of the TTY
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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