A short clip from a telephone advertisement that gives a quick overview of the history of the telephone and the drop in the cost of long distance calls. Visit our web site at www.fasttrackteaching.com for teaching and learning guides, as well as many online resources, for U.S. history and Civics classes.
Edited and posted by David Burns, Fasttrack Teaching Materials. Original video file courtesy the public domain Prelinger film collection of the Internet Archive.