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A phone of our own : the deaf insurrection against Ma Bell / Harry G. Lang.

Title
A phone of our own : the deaf insurrection against Ma Bell / Harry G. Lang.
Author
Lang, Harry G.
Publication
Washington, D.C. : Gallaudet University Press, c2000.

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xv, 242 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Summary
In 1964, of the more than 85 million telephones in the United States and Canada, less than one percent were used regularly by deaf people. In that same year, three enterprising deaf men, Robert H. Weitbrecht, James C. Marsters, and Andrew Saks, started the process that led to deaf people around the world possessing an affordable phone system that they could use. Harry Lang's A Phone of Our Own: The Deaf Insurrection Against Ma Bell tells how these three men collaborated to solve the technical difficulties of developing a coupling device for TTYs that would translate sounds into discernible letters. More remarkably, and with the help of an expanding corps of Deaf advocates, they successfully assaulted the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T), which in its efforts to protect its monopoly, smashed old TTYs to keep them from being used for potentially competitive purposes. A Phone of Our Own is an entertaining and engrossing story of how Deaf people fought and won, and changed the world for the better for deaf people everywhere.
Uniform Title
Project Muse UPCC books.
Subject
  • American Telephone and Telegraph Company
  • Telecommunications devices for the deaf > United States > History
  • Telephone > United States > History
  • Deafness > history
  • Telephone > history
  • Telecommunications > history
  • Self-Help Devices > history
Genre/Form
  • History
  • History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
1. A Chance Encounter -- 2. Up the Mountainside -- 3. Something Old, Something New -- 4. The Corporate Windmill -- 5. The Frustration Grows -- 6. Teletypewriters for the Deaf, Inc -- 7. Change Agents -- 8. The Modem War -- 9. Foreign Affairs -- 10. Revolutions -- 11. Bridges -- 12. Changing of the Guard -- 13. Legacy -- Appendix. A Concise History of the TTY.
ISBN
1563680904
LCCN
^^^00028147^
OCLC
43599157
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library