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In one man's life:
I.—Theodore N. Vail and the beginnings of the telephone

By Albert Bigelow Paine



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SEE ALSO: Bell, Alexander Graham; Capitalists and financiers; Hubbard, Gardiner G.; Patent suits; Patents; Portraits; Telephone; Vail, Theodore N.; Forbes, W.H.
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