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Certain services can be called with a short number, ignoring the above scheme. 112 - Emergency number (ambulance, fire brigade, police) 104 - Ambulance; 105 - Fire Brigade; 107 - Police; 143 - Telephone fault reporting; 180 - Time service; 188 - Roadside assistance; 193 - Alarm service; 197 - Yellow Pages directory assistance; 198 - National ...
The first use of a national emergency telephone number began in the United Kingdom in 1937 using the number 999, which continues to this day. [6] In the United States, the first 911 service was established by the Alabama Telephone Company and the first call was made in Haleyville, Alabama, in 1968 by Alabama Speaker of the House Rankin Fite and answered by U.S. Representative Tom Bevill.
Area codes in New York state; area codes 518 and 838 highlighted in light green. Area codes 518 and 838 are telephone area codes in the North American Numbering Plan for eastern Upstate New York in the United States. 518 is one of the 86 original North American area codes created in 1947.
As book donations continued to grow and space became scarce, the city of Albany petitioned Andrew Carnegie for funds to construct a new public library for county use. On January 9, 1905, Carnegie granted $10,700 to be used to construct the building, on the condition the town pay an annual maintenance fee of 10% of the donated price. [7]
06 Mobile phone services; 07 Mobile phone services; 08 Special phone numbers: Freephone (numéro vert) and shared-cost services. 09 Non-geographic number (used by Voice over IP services) All geographic numbers are dialed in the ten-digit format, even for local calls. The international access code is the International Telecommunication Union's ...
In rural areas with magneto crank telephones connected to party lines, the local phone number consisted of the line number plus the ringing pattern of the subscriber. To dial a number such as "3R122" meant making a request to the operator the third party line (if making a call off your own local one), followed by turning the telephone's crank ...
During the late 1900s one of the most well known coaches at the university was football coach Bob Ford.The architect of the University at Albany's football program, Ford was Albany's only head coach from the reinstatement of the program after a 46-year absence until his retirement at the end of the 2013 season.
The U.S. Railroad Retirement Board (RRB) is an independent agency in the executive branch of the United States government created in 1935 [2] to administer a social insurance program providing retirement benefits to the country's railroad workers.