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Touch-Tone service, with electronic “touch and talk” phones, will be introduced in the two communities by the Bell Telephone Company of Pennsylvania. K B Chura, Bell’s local manager, said only about 30 of the company’s nearly 60 central offices in Pennsylvania now have the optional, extra-charge service.
Each tone was created by Ketcham to harmonize or contrast with virtually any decorating scheme. B. A. Hollingsworth, Indianapolis division manager of the telephone company, said that telephones in colors give the homemaker an almost unlimited field in decorating her kitchen planning center.
It was on that memorable day in telephone history - June 2, 1875 - when Bell and Watson were testing a number of transmitters, connected by a single wire to a corresponding set of vibrating reed receivers, that the first sounds were transmitted electrically.
Dial & touch-tone phones came in lots of decorator colors 1960s Miss Princess Phone contest In connection with the introduction of the new telephone, New Jersey Bell is running a “Miss Princess Phone” contest among its 15,000 women employees.
Two retro-futuristic tech toys took their place in this model home: an Electrohome “Space Bubble” portable stereo, spun aluminum base and smoked plastic top, and the Bell System Picturephone and 12-button Touch-Tone telephone by AT&T.
People who work around the telephone company call her Audie. Actually, the company has two audichrons in San Francisco. One broadcasts the time, and the other stands by on an emergency basis. The automatic time system was started by Pacific Telephone in 1948, about 20 years after operators first started telling people the time as a public service.
Touch-tone phone Faster, easier to use, and more melodic than its dial counterpart, the touch-tone telephone marked the beginning of a new age in telecommunications.
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Presentation was by Cleo F. Craig, President of American Telephone and Telegraph Company, representing the Bell System companies, and Darren B. Clay, President of the United States Independent Telephone Association, representing nearly 5300 independently-owned telephone companies.
Dial the One-Plus way to any other state, except Alaska and Hawaii, after 5 p.m. Ten minutes won’t cost more than $2.57 (plus tax); even less if you call after 11 p.m. or on weekends. So reach out and touch someone. Someone who’s waiting to share your day. Reach out. Reach out and touch someone. Bell System/Bell Telephone