Telephone history, plus see 50 old phones, like early rotary-dial ...
Sep 14, 2021 · 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 …
Jun 8, 2024 · 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.”
How do you use a rotary phone? We have the original step-by …
Feb 7, 2022 · Below, we’ve sourced some vintage rotary phone training materials for kids (and adults!) that were distributed by the telephone company way back in the day. Might be worth a bookmark to show your own kids or grandkids. You never know when that old dial phone analog technology might be a useful skill to have! (PS: You can still buy them today.)
Vintage payphones: When phone booths, walk-up & drive-up …
Jun 15, 2020 · 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 ...
Vintage 1980s cordless phones seemed like magic & completely …
Feb 16, 2020 · 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 ...
Vintage touch-tone phones: The tech breakthrough that …
Dec 1, 2024 · 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.
Remember that AT&T jingle, 'Reach out and touch someone'?
Aug 30, 2021 · 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 ...
Remember Merlin, the retro electronic game that looked like a …
Aug 9, 2021 · Merlin awakens minds by putting memory, melody and a little bit of magic into the hands of a child.. We put six completely different games in Merlin that give a child the opportunity to choose among outwitting a computer, composing a song, solving a puzzle, or …
Old office telephone systems like these were big business back in …
Jun 21, 2020 · 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!
The old Yellow Pages phone book was so vital, we never imagined …
Feb 25, 2023 · 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 ...