The binder contains the following papers:

- ‘The Birth and Babyhood of the Telephone’, Thomas A Watson

- ‘Telephony’, Dr V. Wietlisbach, from Electrical Engineering Chicago Oct 1895

- ‘A Set of New Ring-Off Instruments for Telephone Exchanges &c’, D. Sinclair, 16th November 1887

- ‘Some Telephone Disturbances from Electrical Generators’, George D. Shepardson, Apaper presented at the 15th general meeting of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, Omaha, June 29 1898

- ‘The Evolution of the Telephone Switchboard’, Arthur Vaughan Abbott, Electrical Engineering

- ‘Telephone Engineering Outside the Central Station’, G.C. Allan, a paper read at the 172nd meeting of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, New York, January 23 1903

- ‘The Telephone Manager’, Fred DeLand, Electrical Engineering

- ‘Rivalry Means Divided Patronage’, Electrical Engineering

- ‘A New Telephone’, article from The Times reproduced in Journal of the Society of Arts, March 18 1881

- ‘Recent Progress in Telephony’, William Henry Preece, Journal of the Society of Arts, No 1, 555, Vol XXX, Friday September 8 1882

- ‘Some Interesting Phases of Long-Distance Telephony’, S.G. McMeen, presented before Electrical Section Nov 11 1904 from Journal of the Western Society of Engineers (Chicago), Vol IX No 6, December 1904

- ‘On Edison’s Electro-Chemical or Loud-Speaking Telephone’, Conrad W. Cooke, Journal of the Society of Arts, May 23 1879

- ‘Modern Telephony’, Alfred Rosling Bennett, Fielder Magazine, Oct 1899

- ‘The Telephone and its Operation’, Morgan Brooks, Cassier’s Magazine, Vol III No 1, May 1895

- ‘The Telephone and its Operation’, Morgan Brooks, Cassier’s Magazine, Vol III No 1, May 1865

- ‘The Telephone in the United States’, Herbert Laws Webb, Cassier’s Magazine, July 1904

- ‘The Evolution of Line Signal’, Arthur Vaughn Abbott, a paper to be presented to the 15th General Meeting of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, Omaha, June 20th 1898

- ‘The Evolution of the Telephone Switchboard’, Thomas D Lockwood, a paper read at the 172nd Meeting of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, New York, January 23 1903 (Advanced and Standard Copies)

- ‘The Telephone Switchboard’, Introduction by President Scott and ‘The Evolution of the Telephone Switchboard’ from Transactions of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, Vol XX No 2, Feb 1903

- ‘An Automatic Telephone Operator’, William J Harer, a paper read at the 172nd Meeting of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, New York, January 23 1903 from Transactions of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, Vol XX No 2, Feb 1903

- ‘Selective or Individual Signals’, Thomas D Lockwood, a paper read at the General Meeting of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers. Chicago, June 8 1892

- ‘Important European Electrical and Engineering Developments at the Close of the Nineteenth Century’, William J Hammer, presented at the 15th General Meeting of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, New York, February 28 1901

- ‘The Evolution of the Switchboard’, Arthur Vaughan Abbott, Bulletin of the University of Wisconsin, Engineering Series, Vol 1 No 4, October 1894

- ‘Mémoire: Le Systém d’appel Dardeau pour Circuits teléphoniques ou telégraphiques á postes multiples – Application aux Chemins de fer, tramways, caninvaux etc’ [Memory: Custody Call System for Multi-Station Telephone or Telegraph Circuits – Application to Railways, Trams, Carnivals etc], Jules Can Den Savel, Paris, 8th March 1900

- ‘Lighting and Strong Current Arresters as used for the Telephone’, U H Farnham, December 8 1892

- ‘The Drake Selector System’, Thomas Drake, Electrical Engineering and Telephone Magazine, Vol XII No 88, Chicago, January 1899

- ‘Nine Hundred and Fifty Miles by Telephone’, A Dickinson, Caisser’s Magazine [1892]

- ‘Index to Current Literature – Telephone’, Elctrical Engineering (Chicago), July 1893

- ‘The Birth of the Telephone’, Herbert Casson, Worlds Work, March 1910

- ‘The Future of the Telephone’, Herbert N Casson, The World’s Work, May 1910

- ‘The Telephone as it is Today’, Herbert N Casson, The World’s Work, April 1910

- ‘Telephony’, Dr V Weitlisbach