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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 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 will hear the operator say, “Number, please.”
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.
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.
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 started telling people the time as a public service.
When manufacturers introduced the new 46-49-MHz phones last year, some 3 million older models still sat in stores and warehouses. 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.
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 ...
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 & drive-up public telephones were ...
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 ...
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.