Alexander Graham Bell
Alexander Bell
Bell
Thomas A. Watson
Thomas Augustus Watson
Watson
Claude Elwood Shannon
Claude E. Shannon
Shannon
Claude Shannon
Westinghouse
phonemaker
George Westinghouse
Samuel F. B. Morse
Morse
Samuel Finley Breese Morse
Samuel Morse
telephonophile
Charles Proteus Steinmetz
Steinmetz
post office box
Vannevar Bush
pretelephone
Bush
cellco
Mergenthaler
Ottmar Mergenthaler
superphone
Weil
Andre Weil
Montgomery Ward
handy
Aaron Montgomery Ward
Ward
telephonology
Oswald Veblen
telling bone
Veblen
honker
Norbert Wiener
Wiener
prephonemic
pay-phone
tin can telephone
Hollerith
Herman Hollerith
Joan Didion
John Hoyer Updike
John Updike
Didion
Erica Jong
Updike
tapper
Jong
pay-station
telephone jack
phone jack
Mary Flannery O'Connor
Frank R. Stockton
Stockton
brick phone
Frank Stockton
Burroughs
tachyonic antitelephone
Guglielmo Marconi
O'Connor
call box
Flannery O'Connor
Francis Richard Stockton
William Seward Burroughs I
phone card
Marconi
William Seward Burroughs
Langston Hughes
James Langston Hughes
telco
Hughes
Heyward
DuBose Heyward
touch-tone
visible speech
dialer
tax dodge
Edwin DuBois Hayward
DuBois Heyward
webphone
phoner
telesalesman
Robert Gray
Gray
Bernard Malamud
Malamud
trimphone
netphone
Alexander Melville Bell
Melville Bell