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        Date: 2024-11-05 15:24:35+00:00
        From: scholar-at-large@bell.net <scholar-at-large@bell.net>
        Subject: Re: [Humanist] 38.226: moderation

Willard

The wire arrangements mentioned in the work you cite:

> […]

>
> The following is from Ithiel de Sola Pool et al, "Foresight and
> Hindsight: The Case of the Telephone", in de Sola Pool's valuable
> collection, The Social Impact of the Telephone (1977). The authors quote
> one General Carty, Chief Engineer at the American Telephone and
> Telegraph Company from 1907:
>
> […]

> The authors contrast the thoroughly sober remarks of the more practical
> folks who objected to flights of fancy, and those who couldn't
> understand, for example, why a young employee of the U.S. Post Office,
>
>> one who holds an honorable and far more responsible position than
>> any man under the Postmaster General, should throw it up for a d--d
>> old Yankee notion (a piece of wire with two Texas steer horns
>> attached to the ends with an arrangement to make the concern bleat
>> like a calf) called a telephone.
>

reminded me of the work of Lori Emerson on Other Networks especially the
research on barbwire telephone:

https://loriemerson.net/2024/08/31/a-brief-history-of-barbed-wire-fence-
telephone-networks/ <https://loriemerson.net/2024/08/31/a-brief-history-of-
barbed-wire-fence-telephone-networks/>

Enjoy

François


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