Loving little Egypt / Thomas McMahon.
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TextSeries: Comtemporary American FictionPublisher: 40 West 23rd Street, New York, New York 10010, USA : Viking Penguin Inc., c1988; 27 Wrights Lane, London W8 5TZ : Penguin Books Ltd, c1988Description: 273 [1 unnumbered] pages : 22 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0140093311 [newsprint]Subject(s): People with visual disabilities -- Fiction | Telecommunication systems -- Fiction | Physicists -- Fiction | Telephone -- Fiction | Blind -- FictionGenre/Form: Historical fiction. | Fantasy fiction.DDC classification: Summary: 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.
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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.
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