author
Edward Mahon Wev
1870–1910
A practical early telephone expert, he wrote a compact guide to tracking down faults in subscriber sets and switchboards at a time when the technology was still new. His work offers a small but vivid window into the everyday problems of the telephone age in the early 1900s.
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Telephone troubles : Their location and remedy
by Edward Mahon Wev
About the author
Little biographical information is easy to confirm, but records from the Library of Congress identify him as Edward Mahon Wev, born in 1870, and list his book Telephone troubles; their location and remedy as published in New York by McGraw Publishing Company in 1907.
That book is a hands-on technical manual rather than a literary work. It was written for people dealing with real telephone equipment, explaining how to locate and fix faults in subscriber instruments and switchboards. Project Gutenberg and the Internet Archive both preserve the work, which has helped keep his small place in communications history visible.
A memorial record indicates that he died in 1910 in Falls Church, Virginia, at about forty years old. Beyond that, confirmed details about his life appear to be scarce, so he is best remembered today through this concise snapshot of the early telephone industry.