How Sanford B. Dole fixed his “people problem.”
“There’s a pair of 1878 telephones sitting behind plexiglass at Honolulu Museum of Art’s new exhibit, “Hoʻoulu Hawaiʻi: The King Kalākaua Era.” The gadgetry, built of varnished maple boxes and fitted with horned vocal-audio transmitters, are one of the earliest examples of Bell’s invention, having arrived in the islands just one year after debuting in Scientific American.”
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