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Chronomedia 1876
Predictions from 1876

William Preece
Chief engineer, General Post Office, UK
The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys..
• 1876. Nonetheless, Preece came to champion Marconi as well as overseeing the nearly development of the telephone


Chronomedia 1876

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