A Phone of Our Own
The Deaf Insurrection Against Ma Bell
by Harry G. Lang
242 pages· 2000· ISBN 9781563680908
About
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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