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American Experience

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American Experience - Season 9 Episode 5 The Telephone


(28 votes, average: 7.50/ 10)

55 minutes 2024 HD

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At first rented only "to persons of good breeding," seen as an expensive luxury for doctors and businessmen, within a decade the telephone had begun to transform American life. Trees gave way to telephone poles as operators known as "hello girls" began to connect a sprawling continent.

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