McMahon, Thomas A. 1943-
Loving little Egypt / Thomas McMahon. - 40 West 23rd Street, New York, New York 10010, USA : Viking Penguin Inc., c1988. 27 Wrights Lane, London W8 5TZ : Penguin Books Ltd, c1988. - 273 [1 unnumbered] pages : 22 cm. - Comtemporary American Fiction .
Summary: In the early 1920s Mourly Vold, a nearly blind physics prodigy, discovers a way to tap into the long-distance telephone line and set up a communications network with other blind people nationwide. William Randolph Hearst is appalled, Alexander Graham Bell is delighted- and Mourly Vold, a folk hero of sorts, finds himself on a quixotic adventure into the heart of American big business.
English
0140093311 [newsprint]
86040259
People with visual disabilities--Fiction.
Telecommunication systems--Fiction.
Physicists--Fiction.
Telephone--Fiction.
Blind--Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Fantasy fiction.
Loving little Egypt / Thomas McMahon. - 40 West 23rd Street, New York, New York 10010, USA : Viking Penguin Inc., c1988. 27 Wrights Lane, London W8 5TZ : Penguin Books Ltd, c1988. - 273 [1 unnumbered] pages : 22 cm. - Comtemporary American Fiction .
Summary: In the early 1920s Mourly Vold, a nearly blind physics prodigy, discovers a way to tap into the long-distance telephone line and set up a communications network with other blind people nationwide. William Randolph Hearst is appalled, Alexander Graham Bell is delighted- and Mourly Vold, a folk hero of sorts, finds himself on a quixotic adventure into the heart of American big business.
English
0140093311 [newsprint]
86040259
People with visual disabilities--Fiction.
Telecommunication systems--Fiction.
Physicists--Fiction.
Telephone--Fiction.
Blind--Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Fantasy fiction.