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Pioneering the Telephone in Connecticut (1953) comic books

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    Rare due to very limited distribution (issued only in Connecticut. Pioneering the Telephone in Connecticut was distributed by The Southern New England Telephone Company in 1953 to commemorate the 75th answer of the first commercial telephone exchange. Wrap-around painted cover, 20-pages, full color, standard comic book dimensions, slick cover with newsprint interior, no cover price. Features include: 1) How George Coy helped Alexander Graham Bell demonstrate his telephone in Connecticut; 2) How Coy secured the rights to set up a telephone company in New Haven, Connecticut; 3) How the first telephone exchange in New Haven was set up and operated; 4) The first emergency call, and how the telephone helped save a man's life; 5) How the first telephone operators were young boys (!) until it was proven women were better at it and more polite; 6) How intercity telephone service began ; 7) The great blizzard OF 1888, and how the telephone service helped save lives; 8) How a great fire in 1889 destroyed the telephone exchange and how they recovered and maintained service; 9) Early telephone designs and inventions; 10) How early cars helped service telephones; 11) Early New England Telephone training and pension programs; 12) How a violent Hurricane in 1938 challenged the phone system; 13) How New England Telephone helped repair phone lines that the Germans destroyed during their retreat from France in World War II; and 14) How the company mobilized its resources after the attack on Pearl Harbor.