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          Stephen invented the multiple call district telephone box in , the electric elevator in , the idea of the trolley car in...

          Stephen invented the multiple call district telephone box in , the electric elevator in , the idea of the trolley car in , the first application of.

        1. Stephen invented the multiple call district telephone box in , the electric elevator in , the idea of the trolley car in , the first application of.
        2. STEPHEN DUDLEY FIELD.
        3. Stephen invented the multiple call district telephone box in , the electric elevator in , the idea of the trolley car in
        4. FIELD, Stephen Dudley [] -- American electrical engineer and inventor.
        5. In Stephen Dudley Field successfully ran an electric streetcar in New York City with power from a stationary generator.

          6. STEPHEN DUDLEY FIELD Edit Profile

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          Stephen Dudley Field was an American electrical engineer, inventor.

          Background

          Stephen Dudley Field was born in Stockbridge, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, the son of Jonathan Edwards and Mary Ann (Stuart) Field.

          Education

          His education was directed at first toward law, and he attended Williams Academy and then Reid Hoffman’s School in Stockbridge.

          Completed schooling at Dutchess County Academy, Poughkeepsie, New York.

          Career

          When, however, through the efforts of his uncle, Cyrus West Field, the first Atlantic cable was successfully laid in 1858, and a telegraph office was opened at Stockbridge in his father’s law office, Stephen, then twelve years old, became intensely interested in telegraphy.



          In 1863 he went to California as a telegraph operator for the California State Telegraph Company, and after two years in this service spent three more with