. Bell telephone magazine . of GardinerG. Hubbard, one of his two principalbusiness advisors; the family ofThomas Sanders, who provided muchof the financial support that enabledBell to carry on his telephone experi-ments; Thomas A. Watson, his me-chanical assistant in the early days ofhis struggle to bring his invention tosuccess; Thomas D. Lockwood, formany years an authority on telephonepatent matters and other phases oftelephone history; John J. Carty, whobegan his telephone career as a boyoperator in Boston in 1879 and roseto a position of world-wide recognitionas a leader in the field of
. Bell telephone magazine . of GardinerG. Hubbard, one of his two principalbusiness advisors; the family ofThomas Sanders, who provided muchof the financial support that enabledBell to carry on his telephone experi-ments; Thomas A. Watson, his me-chanical assistant in the early days ofhis struggle to bring his invention tosuccess; Thomas D. Lockwood, formany years an authority on telephonepatent matters and other phases oftelephone history; John J. Carty, whobegan his telephone career as a boyoperator in Boston in 1879 and roseto a position of world-wide recognitionas a leader in the field of telephoneengineering, and many others. Although Mr. Langdon had him-self selected the title of HistoricalLibrarian,* as against that of His-torian, to which consideration hadbeen given, the one-room domain overwhich he presided was not called alibrary. It was known as the Ameri- * Mr. Langdon retired in 1936, and was suc-ceeded as Historical Librarian by the presentwriter. 19^2 The American Telephone Historical Library 247. Thom\s a. Watsons Notebook /,. ,7 BeWs young assistant kept a methodical record of their progress. ^;^J^;,/;.;f;^; .jf^ page is noted verbatim (he Jirst complete sentence of speech ever transmitted electrically can Telephone Historical Collection,*and this name was retained until itwas changed in 1933 to the American *See The American Telephone HistoricalCollection, Bell Telephone Quarterly. Jan-uary, 1924; The Growth of the Historical Col-lection, Quarterly, April, 1925. Telephone Historical Library. Theoriginal name was perhaps more sig-nificant than might appear on casualconsideration. The first and mostimportant task of the librarian wasobviously that of a collector. ^ux^^s^yj/r Tut/ y/^vJJ aAAo(/ ^ ffYo-^ ,it£> /^Vfda/—
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