The History of the Telephone

The History of the Telephone is a Book of Technology and Engineering. It is such a story as the telephone itself might tell, if it could speak with a voice of its own. It is not technical. It is not statistical. It is not exhaustive. It is so brief, in fact, that a second volume could readily be made by describing the careers of telephone leaders whose names I find have been omitted unintentionally from this book such indispensable men, for instance, as William R. Driver, who has signed more telephone cheques and larger ones than any other man.