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Pub. Date
2022
Description
June 1917. Arriving in France, General John Pershing found himself unable to communicate with troops in the field. Pershing needed operators who could swiftly and accurately connect multiple calls, speak fluent French and English, remain steady under fire, and be utterly discreet. Well-trained American telephone operators were women-- who were not permitted to enlist. But the U.S. Army Signal Corps promptly began recruiting them. Grace Banker of New...
23) Phone booth
Pub. Date
©2003
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (81 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Stu Shepard, a self-centered New York City publicist, suddenly finds himself on the deadly end of a high-powered rifle scope when he picks up a ringing payphone and the man on the other end tells him that he's going to kill him if he hangs up.
24) Wizzywig
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Pub. Date
©2012
Physical Desc
286 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
"They say what you see is what you get-- but Kevin "Boingthump" Phenicle could always see more than most people. In the world of phone phreaks, hackers, and scammers, he's a legend. His exploits are hotly debated: could he really get free long-distance calls by whistling into a pay phone? Did his video-game piracy scheme accidentally trigger the first computer virus? And did he really dodge the FBI by using their own wiretapping software against them?...
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Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
371 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
Henry Pierce has a whole new life: a new apartment, a new telephone, a new telephone number. But the first time he checks his messages, he finds a message for the woman who had the number before him, and it seems that Lilly is in some serious trouble. Pierce is inexorably drawn into Lilly's world of escort services, web sites, sex, and secret identities. Now, he'll abandon his orderly life in a frantic race to save the life of a woman he's never met....
26) The Wave
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Errols father has been dead for several years. Yet lately Errol has been awakened in the middle of the night by a caller claiming to be his father. Is it a prank, or a message from the grave? When he hears the unmistakable sound of a handset being put down on a table, he decides to investigate.Curious and not a little unnerved, Errol sneaks into the graveyard where his father is buried. What he finds there changes his life forever. Caught up in a...
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Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
422 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Description
Highlights achievements of Bell Labs as a leading innovator, exploring the role of its highly educated employees in developing new technologies while considering the qualities of companies where innovation and development are most successful.
30) Genius on hold
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A brilliant telecommunications inventor was held down by corporate greed and government monopolies and ended up so desperate to provide for his family he ended up working for the mafia; creating the infamous 'black box.' His unimaginable decline led his son to turn to life of crime to become the world's most notorious jewel thief.
31) Landline
Author
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
7 audio discs (9 hr.) : digital, CD audio ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A moving and hilarious tale of a marriage on the brink, and one woman's chance to either save it or make sure it never happens.
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Pub. Date
2021.
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98 pages ; 18 cm.
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"Dr. Tarak Kapoor cannot sleep. He has just taken a job as a telemedicine doctor in Texas. Garnet is two days and five airports away from his home in Mumbai. Tarak is so tired, but his body thinks it's lunchtime in India. By 2:30 a.m. he is wandering the empty streets. To his surprise, he finds a brightly lit pay telephone next to a set of broken traffic lights. Even though it's the middle of the night, people drive up one by one and make calls. Why...
33) Brazen virtue
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Mystery novelist Grace McCabe, impatient with the police, lures a killer to her doorstep after her sister--who had been working as a phone sex operator to save money for a custody lawyer to get her son back--is murdered, strangled with a telephone cord.
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm
Description
"Led by twenty-five-year-old Grace Banker, thirty-two telephone operators -- affectionately called Hello Girls back in the US -- became the first female combatants in World War I. Follow Grace Banker's journey from her busy life as a telephone switchboard trainer in New York to her pioneering role as the Chief Operator of the 1st Unit of World War I telephone operators in the battlefields of France. With expert skill, steady nerves, and steadfast...
36) The black phone
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Finney Shaw is a shy but clever 13-year-old boy who's being held in a soundproof basement by a sadistic, masked killer. When a disconnected phone on the wall starts to ring, he soon discovers that he can hear the voices of the murderer's previous victims, and they are dead set on making sure that what happened to them doesn't happen to Finney.
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Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
viii, 542 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
The Innovators is Walter Isaacson's revealing story of the people who created the computer and the Internet. It is also a history of the digital revolution and a guide to how innovation really happens. What were the talents that allowed certain inventors and entrepreneurs to turn their visionary ideas into disruptive realities? What led to their creative leaps? Why did some succeed and others fail? Isaacson begins with Ada Lovelace, Lord Byron's daughter,...
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