USE OF TELEPHONE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 January 1941, Page 7

USE OF TELEPHONE

HISTORICAL WRITING SUFFERS 'l'he belief that historical writing h:e ■ suffered from the invention of th«- telephone has lately been expressed by Mi Harold Laneour. acting librarian of ■ Cooper Union, New York. That m titution has just received .m miyor'.u.: ' accession in tin form <>i 5(1,000 letter:.| and other from the i-st.ite- of; its founder, Peter Cooper, and h:r son- i In-law. Abram S Hi-xv.it* Thnc will, be ar. invaluable • .urce • ' re.-i.-;uvh j material in America!; Ir.- t ry .r both | Cooper ami Hewitt had . wide r.m;? of mteici.ts They were intimately concerned in the industrial development of the emmtry during the law; century, as well as in the nninicipid 1 affairs of them owi city Ms 1 • four Hk’gc't. tfi.it tn.my <>f the d'in ■ Supplied ' ‘Hi C I I,- P' ‘ of «-uch matter’- ■ >.- '!;■ laying of th< Atlantic I. .!>:<■ <■' oper w. ■ Uy ru Field’s closest ati'iociate in that enter', prise the first trial of the H<'.vmv: nroc-'-'-s it, Amrnc ? ami the con-inn - ji 4 ,p ‘J the hr-,t modern xk> • c:,>j <■: w-aild have bwn dr-.ru«--cd by ph< nv it that l.ibmir tvmg had existed at the turn'. <md would thus have fotmd f’.o ; erm.t r<'i’ ! -rit i —'’Times Literary Supple;!.er. t )