The divestiture of the American telephon
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Jerry G. Blaivas
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Article
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1984
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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Graham Bell, a displaced Scotsman and professor of vocal physiology at Boston University, was not trying to invent the telephone. He was trying to teach deaf people to hear. His experiments involving the transmission of sound by electricity failed to accomplish his lifelong goal-a hearing prosthesis