Tel-musici .28Wilmington.2C Delaware.2C U.S..29 Telephone newspaper
tel-musici service home installation (1909)
the tel-musici developed send requested phonograph recordings, transmitted central music room , households listened using loudspeakers called magnaphones . primary individual behind tel-musici inventor george r. webb. in 1908, tel-musici company, capitalization of $10,000, incorporated in state of delaware number of baltimorians , , service began operation in wilmington next year, george webb company president, , j. j. comer general manager. charge 3 cents each requested standard tune, , 7 cents grand opera. subscribers required guarantee purchases totaling $18 per year.
the wilmington system later taken on wilmington , philadelphia traction co. service added live programs, expanding offerings more along lines of general telephone newspaper operation.
the promoters worked convince local telephone companies install own tel-musici operations, however, although there plans expand throughout united states, wilmington location, ceased operations around 1914, ever became operational.
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