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The telephone and electric course
The town's first-signal record is a business record, and this section keeps it at that size. Telephone and electric service came to North Liberty as enterprises — exchanges, lines and light plants whose founding, ownership and succession are carried whole in the businesses leg's utilities article — and no separate first-wireless, first-telegraph or inventor's-spire moment for this town was found in the primary record reached. That is the honest form of the first-signal article at farm-town scale: the technology arrived, it was sold by named local men, and the drama the big-city legs find in a laboratory simply has no counterpart here. The consumer-technology chapter resolves the same way: no appliance line was designed or first built in North Liberty; the town's households bought the washing machines and radios the region's works produced, and their arrival is a retail fact in the businesses record.