{"id":590,"date":"2004-09-26T17:59:01","date_gmt":"2004-09-26T21:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/?p=590"},"modified":"2004-09-26T17:59:01","modified_gmt":"2004-09-26T21:59:01","slug":"canadian-early-information-technology-bell-in-nova-scotia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=590","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Early Information Technology: Bell in Nova Scotia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"bellhomesmall.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/notes\/images\/bellhomesmall.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\nAlexander Graham Bell established a summer home near Baddeck in Nova Scotia called Beinn Bhreagh (seen in the distance in the picture &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/notes\/images\/bellhome.html\">View large image<\/a>.) While Beinn Bhreagh is still a private residence, there is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pc.gc.ca\/lhn-nhs\/ns\/grahambell\/natcul\/index_e.asp\">Alexander Graham Bell National Historic Site of Canada<\/a> in Baddeck that documents his experiments once he was wealthy. (I took the picture from the museum grounds.) They have an enourmous hydrofoil experiment that looks like a plane.<br \/>\nFor a history of the telephone in Canada see <a title=\"History of Innovation\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bce.ca\/en\/company\/history\/index.php\">BCE :: History of Innovation<\/a> or an interactive Flash <a title=\"History of Innovation\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bce.ca\/data\/flash\/bce_hist_en.html\">timeline<\/a>. Hamilton, by the way, was where the first public telephone was installed and the first &#8220;long distance&#8221; line was from Hamilton to Toronto.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nTwo quotes from the interactive timeline,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b>February 1, 1881<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The Company installs its first public telephone in Lancefield&#8217;s Stationery Store, Hamilton, Ontario. The telephone is not equipped with a coin collector and customers pay the storekeeper.<\/p>\n<p><b>May 15, 1881<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The Company constructs its first &#8220;long distance&#8221; line between Hamilton and Toronto. Vice-President and Managing Director Charles Fleetford Sise advances the capital from his own personal fortune to ensure the completion of the project.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>One thing I didn&#8217;t realize was that the initial phones were sold as merchandise, not a service. You bought the phone and strung the wires yourself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alexander Graham Bell established a summer home near Baddeck in Nova Scotia called Beinn Bhreagh (seen in the distance in the picture &#8211; View large image.) While Beinn Bhreagh is still a private residence, there is a Alexander Graham Bell National Historic Site of Canada in Baddeck that documents his experiments once he was wealthy. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=590\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Canadian Early Information Technology: Bell in Nova Scotia<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}