Inventing telephone usage : debating ownership, entitlement and purpose in early British telephony
In this thesis I counter the received scholarly view that restrictive government policies delayed the uptake of telephony in Britain before its nationalisation in 1912. Rather, I demonstrate how telephone usage shaped British telephone growth and development between 1877, when telephones were first...
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University of Leeds
2014
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| Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.631397 |