Telephone history, plus see 50 old phones, like early rotary-dial ...
网页2021年9月14日 · Telephone history: Antique phones from 1920-1930. These six images were part of a series of photographs by Theodor Horydczak, all featuring the rotary-dial telephones in use at the time. Based on the technology shown, the pictures were apparently taken sometime between 1920 and 1930.
How do you use a rotary phone? We have the original step-by …
网页2022年2月7日 · HOW TO USE A TELEPHONE WITHOUT A DIAL. When using 8. telephone without a dial, you tell the number you are calling to a telephone operator, instead of turning a dial. Let’s call Jane Murray, whose telephone number is COlumbus 6-8722. Here is the way to do ít. Hold the receiver to your ear and you …
Vintage payphones: When phone booths, walk-up & drive-up …
网页2020年6月15日 · Lighted outdoor telephone booths are multiplying along America’s highways. They and half a million other public telephones — in stores, stations, hotels, motels, airports and other places — make telephone service more useful and convenient day or night. Public telephones get things done …
See vintage touch-tone phones with old-fashioned push buttons
网页2023年1月6日 · The Stroudsburg and Bushkill Telephone Company was established in 1892. It was purchased by the Bell Telephone Company of Pennsylvania in 1926. Tapping out a number on the musical Touch-Tone buttons is so fast that an entire number can be dialed in as little as two seconds. With a rotary dial, it takes about 10 seconds to dial a seven-digit number.
Call the speaking clock for the time, anytime (1957) - Click …
网页2024年6月8日 · People who work around the telephone company call her Audie. Actually, the company has two audichrons in San Francisco. One broadcasts the time, and the other stands by on an emergency basis. The automatic time system was started by Pacific Telephone in 1948, about 20 years after operators first …
Vintage 1950s dial & touch-tone phones came in lots of decorator …
网页2023年10月2日 · Pocket. In the 1950s (and into the 1960s), telephones were more than just a means of communication — they were pretty household decorations! In the decades to follow, phone colors segued to the avocado green, harvest gold and burnt orange colors so popular in the 70s — followed by the oh-so-boring brown and beige phones that dominated the …
Remember that AT&T jingle, 'Reach out and touch someone'?
网页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 1980s cordless phones were absolute magic & completely …
网页2020年2月16日 · To alleviate over-crowding, the FCC approved 10 new channels in December 1983. You can still buy a phone that uses channels in the 1.7-MHz frequency range, but all cordless phones manufactured after Oct. 1, 1984, must operate on the new 46- and 49-MHz channels. ALSO SEE. Look how colorful vintage phones used to be!
Vintage Princess phones: Remember the colorful telephones with …
网页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.
Old office telephone systems like these were big business back in …
网页2020年6月21日 · Just call your Bell Telephone business office, and a representative will visit you at your convenience. No obligation, of course. BELL TELEPHONE SYSTEM. Available in 18-button and 30-button models — in gray, green or beige, with contrasting face plates. ALSO SEE: Vintage payphones: When phone booths, walk-up & …