Telephone
Artifact
Identifier:
2018.001.247
Description
This is the first telephone installed in Dundas between R.F Cowper’s house to his factory in 1877. Cowper’s foreman Frank Burton drove to the home of Alexander Melville Bell (father of the inventor) in Brantford and purchased two phones. He later arranged to have him come install them. This independent line predates the Dundas phone system by a year and was never incorporated into the city system.
Date:
1877
