A Phone of Our Own: The Deaf Insurrection Against Ma Bell
- ISBN-10
- 1563680904
- ISBN-13
- 9781563680908
- Category
- Telecommunications devices for the deaf
- Pages
- 242
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2000
- Publisher
- Gallaudet University Press
- Author
- Harry G. Lang
Description
Lang, a professor for the National Technical Institute for the Deaf, tells about how three enterprising deaf men--Robert Weitbrecht, James Marsters, and Andrew Saks--fought telephone monopolies and bureaucracies and overcame technical difficulties to develop a phone deaf people can use, one that converts sounds into text. Photos.
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