Technical Publications
This section looks at technical publications found on-line by this writer. They range from 19th through to 21st c. documents. Members of telephone clubs associated with the STAA have access to a wide range of historical, technical, telephony publications. To join one of these clubs go here.
The oldest technical publications on telephony I can find (1878-9)
Only a year or so after A.G. Bell patented a practical telephone in 1877;
The Speaking Telephone, Talking Phonograph, and Other Novelties George R Prescott 1878
https://ia802701.us.archive.org/2/items/speakingtelepho01presgoog/speakingtelepho01presgoog.pdf
and the revised version a year later
The speaking telephone electric light and other recent electrical inventions. George R Prescott 1879
https://ia802605.us.archive.org/31/items/speakingtelepho00presgoog/speakingtelepho00presgoog.pdf
Earliest telephony catalogues I can find
1882 Western Electric Company (USA)
http://doc.telephonecollectors.info/dm/western_electric_1882_catalogue_reprint.pdf
1886 Ericsson (Sweden)
https://www.ericsson.com/4a6ee2/assets/local/about-ericsson/ericsson-history/product-catalogues/documents/b4.1_1886.pdf
The second oldest technical publication on telephony I can find (1889)
Right at the beginning of telephony. Just to fuel the debate on who invented the telephone go to the top of p97!
The telephone William Henry Preece; Julius Maier London, Whittaker & Co.; New York, d. Van Nostrand Co., 1889
https://archive.org/details/telephone00pree/page/n5
Telecommunication Journal of Australia and other publications
With thanks to Ric Coxhill. All Telecommunications Journals of Australia 1935 - 1987 etc. published at: http://www.coxhill.com/trlhistory/history/australian_publications.htm
Telecommunication publications including some 21st C. Telecommunication Journal of Australia.
A very comprehensive source of technical publications courtesy Swinburne University (type topic in search box.)
https://researchbank.swinburne.edu.au/searching.do
This section looks at technical publications found on-line by this writer. They range from 19th through to 21st c. documents. Members of telephone clubs associated with the STAA have access to a wide range of historical, technical, telephony publications. To join one of these clubs go here.
The oldest technical publications on telephony I can find (1878-9)
Only a year or so after A.G. Bell patented a practical telephone in 1877;
The Speaking Telephone, Talking Phonograph, and Other Novelties George R Prescott 1878
https://ia802701.us.archive.org/2/items/speakingtelepho01presgoog/speakingtelepho01presgoog.pdf
and the revised version a year later
The speaking telephone electric light and other recent electrical inventions. George R Prescott 1879
https://ia802605.us.archive.org/31/items/speakingtelepho00presgoog/speakingtelepho00presgoog.pdf
Earliest telephony catalogues I can find
1882 Western Electric Company (USA)
http://doc.telephonecollectors.info/dm/western_electric_1882_catalogue_reprint.pdf
1886 Ericsson (Sweden)
https://www.ericsson.com/4a6ee2/assets/local/about-ericsson/ericsson-history/product-catalogues/documents/b4.1_1886.pdf
The second oldest technical publication on telephony I can find (1889)
Right at the beginning of telephony. Just to fuel the debate on who invented the telephone go to the top of p97!
The telephone William Henry Preece; Julius Maier London, Whittaker & Co.; New York, d. Van Nostrand Co., 1889
https://archive.org/details/telephone00pree/page/n5
Telecommunication Journal of Australia and other publications
With thanks to Ric Coxhill. All Telecommunications Journals of Australia 1935 - 1987 etc. published at: http://www.coxhill.com/trlhistory/history/australian_publications.htm
Telecommunication publications including some 21st C. Telecommunication Journal of Australia.
A very comprehensive source of technical publications courtesy Swinburne University (type topic in search box.)
https://researchbank.swinburne.edu.au/searching.do