Telephone history, plus see 50 old phones, like early rotary-dial ...
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.
See vintage touch-tone phones with old-fashioned push buttons
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.
Vintage 1950s dial & touch-tone phones came in lots of decorator …
2023年10月2日 · Vintage extension phones came in many colors to fit your home decor (1961) (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 ...
A vintage vocational training film from 1946: Telephone
2019年2月9日 · Your life work series: Telephone and telegraph (1946) Transcript of the video training film above: The miracle of high speed wired communication is commonplace today. Lift a telephone receiver, and the world is at your fingertips. Speak and your voice spans oceans and continents with the speed of light.
Vintage payphones: When phone booths, walk-up & drive-up …
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 wherever you are. They save you time and trouble.
Vintage 1980s cordless phones seemed like magic & completely …
2020年2月16日 · Find out, plus get top telephone tips from the olden days Sharper Image vintage 1980s cordless phones (1981) Freedom Phone 4000 vintage 80s cordless telephone (1984))
How do you use a rotary phone? We have the original step-by …
2022年2月7日 · THE TELEPHONE AND ITS USES. The telephone was invented in 1876 by a young man named Alexander Graham Bell. Since then, the number of telephones has grown and grown, and today there are millions of telephones in America. The United States has more telephones than all the rest of the world. There are telephones everywhere.
How & why everyone used calling cards in the early 1900s
2021年3月10日 · Etiquette of the visiting card: How to use calling cards (1909) Arizona Republican (Phoenix, Arizona) April 27, 1909. Rules governing the use of visiting cards: When, where, for whom to leave them. “Ask me anything you like,” said Mrs Wright cordially, to a friend who had been puzzled over some points of etiquette.
See the revolutionary Picturephone - Click Americana
2022年4月16日 · The audio line connects through relays to the Picturephone switching system as well as to the standard telephone switching systems so that both conventional telephone and Speakerphone services are provided on the same instrument. The user controls the system with push buttons and makes calls by means of the Touchtone telephone set.
The first vintage vacuum cleaners & the history of the famous …
2018年4月30日 · From the Terre Haute Tribune-Star (Indiana) March 6, 1955. The Hoover Company is the oldest and most widely-known manufacturer of vacuum cleaners in the world. It started with a working force of six persons in the corner of the Hoover leather goods and harness factory in 1908. It now has mere than 18,080 employees in the worldwide organization.