Vintage Telephones of the WorldThis concise examination of the history of the telephone charts early experimentation, technological improvements, the electrophone, special purpose telephones and the evolution of new telephone exchanges. The text concludes with a description of telephone applications in the modern era. culminating in over 25 years as telephone historians and curators of telephone museums. Their research took over 10 years, and information and pictures for the text were gathered from telephone administrations, manufacturers, museums and historial collections throughout the world. Whenever possible, original documents were consulted. The text has been illustrated with pictures of rare and unusual telephones, many of which have been specially photographed for this book. |
Contents
Improved speaking and listening | 18 |
Many shapes and sizes | 41 |
The cabinet telephone | 49 |
The Electrophone | 64 |
New telephones for new exchanges | 103 |
First World War and postwar telephones | 140 |
Into the modern era | 163 |
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Common terms and phrases
American Automatic Electric Company automatic exchange Automatic Telephone Bell Company Bell receiver Bell's Blake transmitter Britain British Post Office British Telecom butterstamp telephone caller candlestick telephone carbon transmitter Chichester Bell code ringing coinbox connected desk developed diaphragm early earpiece Edison electromagnetic Electrophone Emile Berliner enabled equipment Ericsson of Sweden field telephone fitted fixed transmitter telephone Germany granular transmitter granules handset telephones holes installed invented inventors L.M. Ericsson Lars Magnus Ericsson London magnet metal Monophones mounted mouthpiece National Telephone Company omnibus circuits one-piece moulded operated patent Pay Station Company plates police press button produced railway Siemens and Halske signal transmitter sound Strowger Strowger dial subscribers switch switch-hook switchboard table telephone telegraph telephone administrations telephone design telephone exchange telephone Fig telephone instrument Telephone Manufacturing Company telephone of 1900 telephone transmitter telephone user telephone's telephones with carbon Théâtrophone types of telephone wall wanted number Western Electric Company wires