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  2. Rotary dial - Wikipedia

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    A 1931 Ericsson rotary dial telephone without lettering on the finger wheel, typical of European telephones. The 0 precedes 1. A rotary dial typically features a circular construction. The shaft that actuates the mechanical switching mechanism is driven by the finger wheel, a disk that has ten finger holes aligned close to the circumference.

  3. Model 500 telephone - Wikipedia

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    A 1959 Western Electric model 554 wall phone, derived from the model 500 desk phone. It uses the same internal components, dial, and handset as a desk phone. Several telephone models were derived from the basic model 500, using some of the same components. The model 554 was a wall-mounted version.

  4. History of the telephone - Wikipedia

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    For the next half century, the network behind the telephone grew progressively larger and much more efficient, and, after the rotary dial was added, the instrument itself changed little until Touch-Tone signaling started replacing the rotary dial in the 1960s. The history of mobile phones can be traced back to two-way radios permanently ...

  5. Timeline of the telephone - Wikipedia

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    This timeline of the telephone covers landline, radio, and cellular telephony technologies and provides many important dates in the history of the telephone.. Charles Bourseul Johann Philipp Reis Elisha Gray Thomas Edison Alexander Graham Bell Thomas Augustus Watson Tivadar Puskás Emile Berliner Charles Sumner Tainter Theodore Newton Vail

  6. Trimline telephone - Wikipedia

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    This was accomplished by moving the dial from the telephone's base to the underside of the handset, between the earpiece and mouthpiece. [1] The same concept was later used for cellular telephone and cordless telephone models. To miniaturize the rotary dial sufficiently to fit in the Trimline handset, the designers invented an unusual moving ...

  7. Invention of the telephone - Wikipedia

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    US 597062 Calling Device for Telephone Exchange (dial) by A. E. Keith (January 11, 1898) US 687499 Telephone Transmitter (carbon granules "candlestick" microphone) by W.W. Dean (Kellogg Co.) November 26, 1901; US 815176 Automatic Telephone Connector Switch (for rotary dial phones) by A E Keith and C J Erickson March 13, 1906

  8. Telephone exchange names - Wikipedia

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    Telephone numbers listed in 1920 in New York City having three-letter exchange prefixes. In the United States, the most-populous cities, such as New York City, Philadelphia, Boston, and Chicago, initially implemented dial service with telephone numbers consisting of three letters and four digits (3L-4N) according to a system developed by W. G. Blauvelt of AT&T in 1917. [1]

  9. Strowger switch - Wikipedia

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    The telegraph keys or telephone dial creates trains of on-off current pulses corresponding to the digits 1–9, and 0 (which sends 10 pulses). This equipment originally consisted of two telegraph keys engaged by knife switches, and evolved into the rotary dial telephone. The central office switching equipment has a two-motion stepping switch. A ...

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