Entries for the tag ‘Jessop, Thomas Richard (1837-19)’
Brighouse-born Leeds surgeon, built Roundhay Mount (later Carr Head and Woodlands), "first man in Leeds
to install the telephone between residence and surgery and Infirmary". 
- 14 December 1892: Experts tell the High Court that electromagnetic interference from Leeds’s 1891 overhead electric tramway to Roundhay – the nation’s first – has brought down the local telephone service
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