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  • early phones required liquid cell batteries which could spill and cause corrosion.
  • early phones required an operator to connect you and the person you called.
  • early phones were expensive and thus only available in wealthy houses.
  • early phones could only make local calls, the first long distance when it became available was unreliable and typically required both persons shout as loud as they could to be heard at all at the other end.
  • different phone companies started, with overlapping service but no interconnection. if you were on system A and your neighbor was on system B you could not call each other! businesses often had several phones, one for each phone system in the town, just so customers could call them.
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