telephonology

From telephone +‎ -ology.

telephonology (uncountable)

1. The study of telephones.
   • 1909, Canadian Electrical News, page 26, column 2:

     The great feature about the telephones and switchboards offered by this company was their simplicity of construction and ease of operation. They are especially built to be installed by people who have very little knowledge of telephonology, and when installed may be kept in perfect working order without the aid of an expert engineer.

   • 1915 February 25, The Canadian Engineer, page 297:

     […] which telephonology is based; it describes the various telephone systems, the construction of lines and the locating and remedy of telephone troubles.

   • 1917, Annual Report of the Agricultural Experiment Station, Michigan State University, page 165:

     (b) Physics 4c which has previously dealt with the theory of internal combustion engines, automobiles and farm lighting plants, was changed to a course in Telephonology this year to meet the needs of the forestry “rangers.”

   • 1932, E. H. W. Banner, Progress & the Scientific Worker: Scientific, Social, Educational, Industrial:

     ‘Telephony—A Detailed Exposition of the Telephone System of the British Post Office. Volume 1, Manual Switching and Line Plant.’ The title itself is a fairly complete account of the scope of the work but the first paragraph of the Review still further explains the scope and in the addition suggested for the title page showing that the book is a combination of text-book and reference book detailing all apparatus within the scope of the volume and suitable for all engaged in Telephonology other than elementary students knowing nothing whatever of the subject.

   • 1955, “From Bush to Big League Telephone Techniques”, in American Business, page 39, column 2:

     Do you belong in the big league? In the bush league? Just a player in the sand lot? These are the questions the girls in “telephonology” were asked by The Upjohn Company, Kalamazoo, Mich., recently.

   • 1975, “Telephoneiana”, in San Francisco, page 14, column 3:

     […] the former beauty-shop owner also owns a complete library on telephonology, dating from 1879, and sells only those phones that duplicate ones in his collection.

   • 1988, Sociolinguistics: Newsletter of the Research Committee on Sociolinguistics, International Sociological Association, page 166:

     Finally, on comparative telephonology. The virtues of examining telephone communications are largely methodological as the complicated facts of posture, gesture, gaze and facial expression can legitimately be ignored (see, for example, Schegloff 1986) and much conversation analytic attention, especially of the Scheglovian dialect, has been directed at this sort of data.

   • 1991, Eartha Kitt, Confessions of a Sex Kitten, Barricade Books Inc., page 100:

     Oh well, life is not complicated, but telephonology makes it seem so.

   • 1997, Michael A. Hitt, R. Duane Ireland, Robert E. Hoskisson, Insights: Readings in Strategic Management, West Publishing Company, page 24:

     That opens the door for more aggressive spending on new services and technology such as Internet access and telephonology and cable modems for high-speed data, reports Merrill Lynch’s Harry Wagner.