Toronto -- A Toronto man is trying to find someone who can verify his belief an 1881 wooden telephone he bought at auction belonged to inventor Alexander Graham Bell.
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Daniel Peddie, 34, told the Toronto Sun he paid $350 for the large wooden box with a side hand crank, two bells and a mouthpiece on the front and a separate earpiece horn hanging on the side.
After buying it, he looked inside and found a patent renewal for the model with telephone inventor Bell's name on it. Also inside, he found an 1879 Toronto Telephone Dispatch Co. book listing 35 people and instructions for building rural telephone lines.
Peddie said the phone is now in a downtown safety deposit box as he searches for someone to authenticate the phone's history.
Bell was born in Scotland and conducted his earliest work on phones in Brantford, Ontario, 80 miles west of Toronto. He died at a family estate in the province of Nova Scotia in 1922.
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The information that this web site is giving is not entirely true.Yes there is a crank style phone and yes there is a patent renewal dated 1881,what is not clear is the Torono Dispatch Book is what its called and it is dated 1879,yes there are 35 names in it,this book is 4 pages long,the first two pages are a list of names and the next two pages are instructions on how to use a phone.There is also a whole other book from the Northern Electric Co.that book is titled How To Build Rural Telephone Lines.If you have any questions about these peices,pleae feel free to e-mail me at supendous@live.com.I will be happy to assist you further. Thank you.
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1881 Bell Telephone
The information that this web site is giving is not entirely true.Yes there is a crank style phone and yes there is a patent renewal dated 1881,what is not clear is the Torono Dispatch Book is what its called and it is dated 1879,yes there are 35 names in it,this book is 4 pages long,the first two pages are a list of names and the next two pages are instructions on how to use a phone.There is also a whole other book from the Northern Electric Co.that book is titled How To Build Rural Telephone Lines.If you have any questions about these peices,pleae feel free to e-mail me at supendous@live.com.I will be happy to assist you further. Thank you.
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