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From: perelgut@utcsrgv.UUCP (Stephen Perelgut)
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Subject: Re: Canada's Tradition as a Pioneer in Communications Technology
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Date: Tue, 28-Feb-84 13:42:34 EST
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Posted: Tue Feb 28 13:42:34 1984
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Bell sketched detailed plans for the telephone in July 1874 while at his
parent's home in Brantford, Ontario but:
	a) Alexander Graham Bell was a Scottish immigrant
	b) the first telephone didn't work until 1876 when Bell spilled
	   some acid and his assistant heard through the experimental 
	   telephone the now immortal words (thanks to Don Ameche),
	   "Mr. Watson, come here, I want you."
	c) Bell demonstrated his one way telephone for the first time on
	   June 25, 1876 at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition.
	   (Coincidently the same day that General George Custer and his
	   troops were busy providing amusement for a bunch of Sioux 
	   indians at the Little Bighorn.)

[ The above information is take from a draft copy of "Knights of the
New Technology", Imprint/Key Porter without permission.  The information
is available as public knowledge if you look hard enough!]

P.S. From the same source, quoting Marshall McLuhan from his 1964 book
"Understanding Media" on the effects of telecommunications on human 
behaviour.
    "No more unexpected social result of the telephone has been observed
     than its elimination of the red-light district and its creation of
     the call girl."
-- 
Stephen Perelgut   
	    Computer Systems Research Group    University of Toronto
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