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Viaduct compact coffin phone
1878
Phelps/Western Union Double Crown Telephone
1878
Thomas Edison Chalk Telephone
About This Phone
Because Bell had patented the most common receiver technologies, Edison developed a receiver system based on a rotating chalk drum. Combined with Edison's own carbon button transmitter technology, the chalk phone delivered a loud signal--and avoided patent litigation.
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