Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1899 — Rapid Spread of the Telephone. [ARTICLE]

Rapid Spread of the Telephone.

The telephone is only about a quarter of a century old, but there are already over 300,000 public and private connections in the world. Of these the United States have more than half—l73,ooo. Germany, which comes next, has only 150,000; Great Britain only 70,000. Switzerland has more than France, which Is slow to adopt the telephone.