telephone-user

Updated: May 1, 2025

Of course every telephone-user desired to be able to converse with any other who had a telephone in his office or residence. The development of the switchboards had been comparatively slow in the past, and the service rendered by the boys proved far from satisfactory. The average boy proved himself too little amenable to discipline, too inclined to "sass" the telephone-users, and too careless.

Walter Kellogg Towers - Masters of Space: Morse, Thompson, Bell, Marconi, Carty