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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. History of the telephone - Wikipedia

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    Old Receiver schematic, c.1906 A German rotary dial telephone, the W48 Top of cellular telephone tower. By 1904, over three million phones were connected by manual switchboard exchanges in the U.S."AT&T: History: Origins". Corp.att.com. Archived from the original on 20 August 2012. By 1914, the U.S. was the world leader in telephone density and ...

  4. Rotary system - Wikipedia

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    Rotary system. 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 ...

  5. The history of the American phone book - AOL

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    In 1919, AT&T introduced phones with numbers on rotary dials that allowed phone owners to dial each other directly. Over the next several decades, rotary phones gradually phased out manual ...

  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. Timeline of the telephone - Wikipedia

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    1667 to 1875. 1667: Robert Hooke creates an acoustic string telephone that conveys sounds over a taut extended wire by mechanical vibrations. [1] [2] 1844: Innocenzo Manzetti first suggests the idea of an electric "speaking telegraph", or telephone. 1849: Antonio Meucci demonstrates a communicating device to individuals in Havana.

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