Cincinnati's Phone Pioneers: A Century & A Half of Innovation
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Cincinnatis telephone history: From telegraph to daily must-have - The podcast explores how Cincinnati, one of the first cities to adopt the telephone, transformed communication with its early adoption of the device. Starting as a telegraph business in 1873, the Kilgour brothers quickly added telephone lines after seeing Bells invention in 1877. The first calls had quirks, like pressing a button to keep the line open, and operators handled switches manually. Women, known as hello girls, replaced male operators for better manners. The telephone evolved from a fun gadget to a daily must-have, linking distant places and reshaping conversations forever.
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