About this episode

The episode explores the unique experiences of Joe Engressia, a blind child in the 1950s who discovered something unusual about the telephone.

As a blind kid growing up in the 1950s, Joe Engressia spent hours listening to the telephone. Then one day, he whistled into the receiver… and the telephone did something strange. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

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