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Title: Ted and the Telephone

Author: Sara Ware Bassett

Illustrator: William F. Stecher

Release Date: November 2, 2007 [EBook #23292]

Language: English

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TED AND THE TELEPHONE

By Sara Ware Bassett

_The Invention Series_

PAUL AND THE PRINTING PRESS
STEVE AND THE STEAM ENGINE
TED AND THE TELEPHONE

[Illustration: "Would you like to go to college if you could?"
persisted the elder man. FRONTISPIECE.
_See page_ 178.]

The Invention Series

TED AND THE TELEPHONE

By

SARA WARE BASSETT

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY
WILLIAM F. STECHER

BOSTON
LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY
1922

_Copyright, 1922_,
BY LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY.

_All rights reserved_

Published April, 1922

PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

TO THE MEMORY OF

EDWIN T. HOLMES

WHO PLAYED A PART IN THE WONDERFUL
TELEPHONE STORY, THIS
BOOK IS AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED.

S. W. B.

It gives me much pleasure to acknowledge the generosity of Mr. Thomas
Augustus Watson, the associate of and co-worker with Mr. Alexander
Graham Bell, who has placed at my disposal his "Birth and Babyhood of
the Telephone."

Also the courtesy of Mrs. Edwin T. Holmes who has kindly allowed me to
make use of her husband's book: "A Wonderful Fifty Years."

THE AUTHOR.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I AN UNHERALDED CHAMPION 1

II TED RENEWS OLD TIMES 11

III GOING TO HOUSEKEEPING 21

IV THE FIRST NIGHT IN THE SHACK 35

V A VISITOR