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  2. Rotary dial - Wikipedia

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    A rotary dial is a component of a telephone or a telephone switchboard that implements a signaling technology in telecommunications known as pulse dialing. It is used when initiating a telephone call to transmit the destination telephone number to a telephone exchange . On the rotary dial, the digits are arranged in a circular layout, with one ...

  3. Trimline telephone - Wikipedia

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    A 220 Trimline rotary desk phone, showing the innovative rotary dial with moving fingerstop Early Touch Tone Trimline with round buttons and clear plastic backplate and round non-modular handset cord Redesigned touch-tone desk model Trimline, manufactured on January 9, 1985 The Trimline 2225, one of the last phones made at the Indianapolis Works in 1986 Early foreign made Trimline, December ...

  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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    10 September 1879: Connolly and McTighe patent a "dial" telephone exchange (limited in the number of lines to the number of positions on the dial.). 1879: The International Bell Telephone Company (IBTC) of Brussels, Belgium was founded by Bell Telephone Company president Gardiner Greene Hubbard , initially to sell imported telephones and ...

  6. Model 500 telephone - Wikipedia

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    The Western Electric model 500 telephone series was the standard domestic desk telephone set issued by the Bell System in North America from 1950 through the 1984 Bell System divestiture. The successor to the model 302 telephone, the model 500's modular construction compared to previous types simplified manufacture and repair and facilitated a ...

  7. Rotary system - Wikipedia

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    The rotary machine switching system, or most commonly known as the rotary system, was a type of automatic telephone exchange manufactured and used primarily in Europe from the 1910s. The system was developed and tested by AT&T's American engineering division, Western Electric, in the United States, at the same time when Western Electric was ...

  8. Model 302 telephone - Wikipedia

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    Model 302 telephone. The model 302 telephone is a desk set telephone that was manufactured in the United States by Western Electric from 1937 until 1955, and by Northern Electric in Canada until the late 1950s, until well after the introduction of the 500-type telephone in 1949. The sets were routinely refurbished into the 1960s.

  9. 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

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