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January 8, 2013 03:42 pm PST

Fences as primitive phone networks

Somewhere between two-cans-and-a-string and Ma Bell lies the barbed wire fence telephone networks used by ranchers in the early 20th century. From CF Eckhardt's short history of these "rural telephone systems" at TexasHillCountry.com : Across much of the west, to the west of old US 81 (present I-35) in Texas--and not a small part of [...]


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