# The Telephone

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- Book: [The Telephone](https://www.bookquiver.com/james-gleick/the-telephone) ([The Telephone.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/james-gleick/the-telephone.md))
- Authors: [James Gleick](https://www.bookquiver.com/james-gleick)
- Publisher: picador
- ISBN: 978-10-3505-665-1
- Pages: 544
- Published: 2027-01-21
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Hardcover

## Description

The Telephone is at once a history of an invention and much more than that. It's a book about innovators and monopolists, tinkerers and geniuses, and, ultimately, the remaking – and re-remaking – of America. Science and technology never seem more exciting than when James Gleick is writing about them