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Send Me a Kiss by Wireless

In exchanging emoji's with my daughter, I'm part of a long history of communicating by wireless.

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The Cell Phone's True Magic

Of all the devices that surround us, the cell phone may qualify as the most magical.

Patent model for tabletop portable printing press invented by JJ C Smith
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Podcast: Civil War Communications Technologies, Part 1 (of 2)

John Miller, Georgia Institute of Technology, discusses the differences between the Union and the Confederacy in their approaches to telegraph technology and Joan Boudreau, curator of Graphic Arts at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, highlights the role of tabletop portable printing presses.

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Correspondence of Guglielmo Marconi, 1899-1902

Inventor Name Marconi, Guglielmo Repository The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens1151 Oxford RoadSan Marino, CA 91108626-405-2100http://www.huntington.org/

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Benjamin B. Toye Fonds, 1848-1974

Inventor Name Toye, Benjamin B. Repository Archives of Ontario77 Grenville Street, Unit 300Toronto, ONM5S 1B3Canada416-327-16001-800-668-9933 (Toll-free number-Ontario only)www.archives.gov.on.ca

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Frederick Newton Gisborne Fonds, 1859-1892

Inventor Name Gisborne, Frederick Newton Repository Library and Archives Canada395 Wellington StreetOttawa, ON K1A 0N4CANADAReference: 613-996-5115 or 1-866-578-7777 (toll free in Canada and the US)

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Canadian Marconi Company Fonds, 1902-1976

Inventor Name unknown Repository Library and Archives Canada395 Wellington StreetOttawa, ON K1A 0N4CANADAReference: 613-996-5115 or 1-866-578-7777 (toll free in Canada and the US)

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Alexander Graham Bell Fonds, ca. 1915-1922

Inventor Name Bell, Alexander Graham, 1847-1922 Repository Library and Archives Canada395 Wellington StreetOttawa, ON K1A 0N4CANADAReference: 613-996-5115 or 1-866-578-7777 (toll free in Canada and the US)

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Reginald Aubrey Fessenden fonds, 1887-1935

Inventor Name Fessenden, Reginal Aubrey Repository Library and Archives Canada395 Wellington StreetOttawa, ON K1A 0N4CANADAReference: 613-996-5115 or 1-866-578-7777 (toll free in Canada and the US)

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Thomas Edison fonds, 1875-1951

Inventor Name Edison, Thomas

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Telecommunications History 1876-2006

Inventor Name Bell, Alexander Graham Repository The Telecommunications History Group, Inc.PO Box 8719Denver, CO 80201-8719www.telcomhistory.org Physical Description over 60,000 linear inches of material

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Homer Walter Dudley Papers, 1936-1956

Inventor Name Dudley, Homer Walter

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Extracts from de Forest Autobiographical Notes: Books I and II, 1944

Inventor Name De Forest, Lee Repository American Institute of PhysicsOne Physics EllipseCollege Park, Maryland 20740-3843301-209-3100http://www.aip.org/history/

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Madison, Wisconsin, Inventors, 1997

Inventor Name West Field, Cyrus; Dowd, Charles Ferdinand; Munger, George Nicholas; Coe, Walter H; Schailer, Reuben; Duryea, J. Frank Repository Guilford Free LibraryGuilford, CT Physical Description 1 item (11 typewritten p.)

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Samuel Finley Breese Morse Collection, 1791-1872

Inventor Name Morse, Samuel F.B.

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GTE Burst Switch Collection, 1984-1999

Inventor Name GTE

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Kazuo Hashimoto PhoneTel Collection, 1954-1994

Inventor Name Hashimoto, Kazuo

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Daniel Henderson Portable Electronic Devices Documentary Collection, 1968-2002

Inventor Name Henderson, Daniel

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Al Gross Papers, 1909-2000

Inventor Name Gross, Al Repository Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State UniversityUniversity LibrariesP.O. Box 90001Blacksburg, Virginia 24062-9001540-231-6308http://spec.lib.vt.edu/

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Deposition of Charles R. Cross in United States of America v. American Bell Telephone Company and Emile Berliner, 1893.

Inventor Name Storrow, James Jackson

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