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  2. No Man's Land (Eric Bogle song) - Wikipedia

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    In 2009, Bogle told an audience in Weymouth that he had read about a girl who had been presented with a copy of the song by then prime minister Tony Blair, who called it "his favourite anti-war poem". According to Bogle, the framed copy of the poem credited him, but stated that he had been killed in World War I. [1]

  3. History of the telephone - Wikipedia

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    The following is a brief summary of the history of the development of the telephone: Antonio Meucci's telephone. Reis's telephone around 1861, first device called telephone [22] A French Gower telephone of 1912 at the Musée des Arts et Métiers in Paris

  4. Telephone - Wikipedia

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    The Telephone and Its Several Inventors: A History. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co. Evenson, A. Edward (2000). The Telephone Patent Conspiracy of 1876: The Elisha Gray – Alexander Bell Controversy. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co. Fischer, Claude S. (1994) America calling: A social history of the telephone to 1940 (Univ of California Press, 1994)

  5. Timeline of the telephone - Wikipedia

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    Lord Kelvin describes the telephone as "the greatest by far of all the marvels of the electric telegraph". [6] 10 August 1876: Alexander Graham Bell makes the world's first long-distance telephone call, one-way, not reciprocal, over a distance of about 6 miles, between Brantford and Paris, Ontario, Canada.

  6. Tin can telephone - Wikipedia

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    Fig 7 Le Telephone by T du Moncel Paris 1880 (Large) A tin can phone is a type of acoustic (non-electrical) speech-transmitting device made up of two tin cans, paper cups or similarly shaped items attached to either end of a taut string or wire.

  7. Invention of the telephone - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 2 December 2024. Technical and legal issues surrounding the development of the modern telephone For broader coverage of this topic, see History of the telephone. Replica of Antonio Meucci's telettrofono Reis's telephone The invention of the telephone was the culmination of work done by more than one ...

  8. 'Twas the Night Before Christmas Full Poem and History - AOL

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    The poem, originally titled A Visit or A Visit From St. Nicholas, was first published anonymously on Dec. 23, 1823, in a Troy, New York newspaper called The Sentinel.

  9. Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star - Wikipedia

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    "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" is an English lullaby. The lyrics are from an early-19th-century English poem written by Jane Taylor, "The Star". [1] The poem, which is in couplet form, was first published in 1806 in Rhymes for the Nursery, a collection of poems by Taylor and her sister Ann.