Title: Transcontinental Telephone Address to Thomas A. Edison

Note: On October 21, 1915 a group of Thomas Edison's friends and business associates played this recording in the library of the Edison Laboratory in West Orange, New Jersey and transmitted it to Edison at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco, California via the American Telephone and Telegraph Company's newly completed transcontinental telephone line.

Note: Recorded c. October 17, 1915.

Author: Hutchinson, Miller Reese, 1876-1944

EBook No.: 10233

Published: Nov 1, 2003

Downloads: 17

Language: English

Subject: Telephone -- History

LoCC: Technology: Electrical, Electronics and Nuclear engineering

Category: Sound

Rights: Public domain in the USA.