Go back to article: Troublesome telephony: how users and non-users shaped the development of early British exchange telephony

Figure 6

Black and white pen and ink drawing of a cross section of Edison's transmitter from the late 1800s

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Diagram of Edison's transmitter: image from Prescott, George Bartlett, Bell's Electric Speaking Telephone: its Invention, Construction, Application, Modification and History (D. Appleton & Company, 1884 (reprinted Arno Press, 1972)), pg. 36

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15180/150308/011