train-telephone

Updated: May 14, 2025

I wandered into the observation-car, and saw my particular friend proudly employ the train-telephone to inform his office that he had caught the train. I saw also the free supply of newspapers, the library of books, the typewriting-machine, and the stenographer by its side all as promised. And I knew that at the other end of the train was a dining-car, a smoking-car, and a barber-shop.

Arnold Bennett - Your United States: Impressions of a first visit