Charles A. Cheever
Charles Augustus Cheever (September 7, 1852 – May 2, 1900) was an American industrialist and inventor. He was affiliated with Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Edison improving their inventions. He patented 100 of these improvements, most related to the telephone. Cheever formed the Telephone Company of New York and constructed the first telephone line in New York City. He was disabled early in his life and was an invalid.
Early life
Cheever was born in
Mid life
Cheever became a successful businessman and entrepreneur.[3][5][6] He was a fruitful inventor of many items run by electricity and was able to turn them into successful business enterprises.[7] He patented electric rock drills, electrical improvements to elevators, telephone appliances and electric fire engines. Of his 100 patents most were telephone improvements.[8] Cheever was also intrigued with Edison's phonograph. He helped form the North American Phonograph Company[9] and organized firms throughout the United States to promote Edison's advanced commercial version of the phonograph.[1]
Cheever became acquainted with Bell when his invention of the telephone was in its infancy and considered nothing but a novelty item. He was intrigued by it. Cheever went about figuring out how Bell's invention could be beneficial. He constructed and owned the first telephone line in New York City.[1] It was wired from where he lived at 89 Fifth avenue to where E. N. Dickerson lived on Thirty-fourth street.[8] That wired connection showed potential of greater uses for the telephone. Cheever then experimented with a telephone line from his office in the Tribune Building with one to the American Institute Fair to demonstrate commercial usage. He showed the quality of the sound traveling on telephone lines to be good by demonstrating the playing of the band at the Fair reproduced at his office.[1]
Cheever organized and formed the
Later life and death
Cheever formulated a practical way of communicating telegraph messages from moving trains through induction telegraphy. He conducted successful experiments on trains of the
References
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- ^ a b "A Cast of Surmounted Obstacles". The Metal Worker. 53. D. Williams Company: 25. 1900.
- ^ "Obituary". Electrical Review. 36. McGraw-Hill Publishing Company: 484. 1900.
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- ^ "First Telephones in New York". Bell Telephone News. 3 (2): 13. 1913. Retrieved 24 January 2021.
- ^ Leonard 1910, p. 463.
- ^ W. F. Crowell (1918). "Pioneer Struggle of the Telephone". State Service - an Illustrated Monthly Magazine. 2 (1): 14. Retrieved 24 January 2021.
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- ^ "Early Telephone Experiment". Bell Telephone Magazine: 30. 1922. Retrieved 1 March 2021.
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- ^ Hazelton 1925, p. 1609.
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- ^ "Personal Mention". Congressional Record. 78 (18): 718. 1921. Retrieved 2 March 2021.
- ^ "Willard Layman Candee". Electrical World. 77. McGraw-Hill: 1073. 1883. Retrieved 2 March 2021.
- ^ Johnson 1901, p. 405.
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Sources
- Hazelton, Henry Isham (1925). The Boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens, Counties of Nassau and Suffolk, Long Island, New York, 1609-1924; Volume 3. Lewis historical publishing Company. ISBN 9780788449833.
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- Leonard, John William (1910). City of New York, 1609–1909. Journal of commerce and commercial bulletin. OCLC 776902514.