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[Wire Gang]

Description: Photograph of the wire gang, who set up the first long-distance phone lines from Waco, Texas to Belton, Texas. From left: Herbert Barrett, Frank Stone, H.C. Traylor, Srar Barrett, Chas. Straubs. The men are sitting on a wagon pulled by a couple of horses.
Date: 1910
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Partner: Midwestern State University

[General Emilio Campa]

Description: Photograph of General Emilio P. Campa standing next to a telephone. General Campa is seated on an old 'La Nacional Jabon (soap)' box. Campa is also holding an edition of the El Paso Herald newspaper in his hand. The Newspaper's date is not known. The newspaper's title reads in part: "Incendiary Circulars Are B...." The El Paso Herald first went into circulation in 1881. In 1931 the El Paso Herald merged with another local newspaper, the El Paso Post, and the two merged to become the El P… more
Date: [1910..1920]
Creator: Aultman, Otis A., 1874-1943
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Partner: El Paso Public Library

[General Emilio Campa]

Description: Photograph of General Emilio P. Campa talking into a telephone. There is a small unidentified electronic box with a hand crank next to the telephone pole.
Date: [1910..1920]
Creator: Aultman, Otis A., 1874-1943
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Partner: El Paso Public Library

Telephone Selecting System

Description: Patent for a telephone selecting system. This invention is designed to arrange telephones attached to the same line. Illustration included.
Date: February 15, 1910
Creator: Jones, David W.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Disinfectant Telephone-Mouthpiece

Description: Patent for a mouthpiece for transmitters that contains a disinfectant used to prevent the spread of bacteria that has been exhaled into the mouthpiece. Illustrations included.
Date: January 18, 1910
Creator: Dixon, Joseph W.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cut-Out.

Description: Patent for a telephone wire cutout for use in manually grounding the telephone line during a storm.
Date: March 29, 1910
Creator: Smith, James L.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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