In early 1880, when the invention was only four years old, Mark Twain's family, living in Hartford, Connecticut, was one of the first to acquire a telephone.

Here's Twain's amusing account - published in the June, 1880, issue of The Atlantic Monthly, of that new form of entertainment, the one-sided telephone conversation:

A Telephonic Conversation

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