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What was it like before the telephone?

Humphrey, Paul, 1952-1993
Books, Manuscripts
Three children visit a museum and see some of the ways that people used to communicate before there were telephones - with beacons, flags, mail coaches, the pony express and the telegraph. They start to discover what life was like in the days before the telephone brought instant communication.
Main title:
What was it like before the telephone? / Paul Humphrey ; illustrated by Lynda Stevens.
Author:
Imprint:
London : Evans Brothers, 1993.
Collation:
31 pages : illustrations (colour) ; 21 cm.
Series:
Green rainbows; History
Audience:
RA 7+pyl; lspl; lspm
ISBN:
02375133749780237513375
Dewey class:
BROWN-COM621.382
Local class:
BROWN-COM
Language:
English
Index terms:
Technology.communicationsTechnologycommunicatingTelecommunicationHistoryCommunicationCOMMUNICATIONS
BRN:
286915
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