Telephone history, plus see 50 old phones, like early rotary-dial ...
2021年9月14日 · It was on that memorable day in telephone history - June 2, 1875 - when Bell and Watson were testing a number of transmitters, connected by a single wire to a corresponding set of vibrating reed receivers, that the first sounds were transmitted electrically.
Remember calling the phone company speaking clock for the …
2024年6月8日 · Then one day last week, my 11-year-old son called me to the phone frantically. “Mom, Mom, the time has a new voice.” I listened, and somehow the voice sounded softer, but similar. I listened some more, and it was different. “Oh, no,” I thought. “Another woman had to sit down with pots of coffee for 12 hours.”
Vintage payphones: When phone booths, walk-up & drive-up …
2020年6月15日 · Vintage payphones & phone booths: The most popular in the world (1958) By James H Winchester, Central Press Association – The Courier-News (Bridgewater, New Jersey) December 23, 1958 New York — At the east end of New York City’s Grand Central terminal’s upper-level rotunda, between a newsreel theater and a toyshop, stand three rows of ...
Remember that AT&T jingle, 'Reach out and touch someone'?
2021年8月30日 · So two old friends put their heads together with a phone call and agree on the ingredients. You can call a faraway friend to find out what’s cooking or just to say hi. Dial the One-Plus way to any other state, except Alaska and Hawaii, after 5 p.m. Ten minutes won’t cost more than $2.57 (plus tax); even less if you call after 11 p.m. or on ...
Vintage touch-tone phones: The tech breakthrough that …
2024年12月1日 · Phone in a box (1981) MORE: Vintage Princess phones: Remember the colorful telephones with a lit dial from the 60s? Touch-Tone signals must be uniform and perfectly pitched in every instrument. Each Touch-Tone unit has 140 parts, many of which are complex electronic devices. The conventional rotary dial type phone has 87 components.
Vintage Princess phones: Remember the colorful telephones with …
2022年1月13日 · Looking back at the debut of the colorful old Princess phones from the 60s (1960) From the Matawan Journal (Matawan, New Jersey) April 21, 1960 The “Princess,” a newly-designed, compact color telephone with an illuminated dial, represents the sixth major home telephone design change since Alexander Graham Bell’s original invention in 1876.
Vintage 1980s cordless phones seemed like magic & completely …
2020年2月16日 · Dealers have been offering them at big discounts. Many stores are out of the old inventory, but you can still find a 1.7-MHz model at half the price of one of the newer phones. Some 1.7-MHz models cost less than $40, but you might have to pay at least $60 for a quality phone from a manufacturer that is still in business and handles repairs ...
The old Yellow Pages phone book was so vital, we never imagined …
2023年2月25日 · It was still only 40 pages (20 pieces of paper), and included phone directions, advertisements, a list of the 391 phone subscribers at the time, and some short essays on the technology of the era. One rare copy of the first edition of this phone book was sold at an auction by Christie’s in 2008. It was expected to sell for between $30,000 and ...
Vintage 1950s dial & touch-tone phones came in lots of decorator …
2023年10月2日 · (1) One-Button Phone: Can do one of several jobs—cut other extensions off your line, switch your phone to another line, or raise your phone’s hearing level. (2) Extension Phones: Add step-saving conveniences with wall phone, desk set or Princess in colors that harmonize with furnishings in living, sleeping, work or play areas.
Old office telephone systems like these were big business back in …
2020年6月21日 · Even back when telephones had rotary dials, advances were being made in creating business phone technology that worked like mini-switchboards. See some of these old office telephone systems — complete with big buttons and side handsets — here!