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The Stroudsburg and Bushkill Telephone Company was established in 1892. It was purchased by the Bell Telephone Company of Pennsylvania in 1926. Tapping out a number on the musical Touch-Tone buttons is so fast that an entire number can be dialed in as little as two seconds. With a rotary dial, it takes about 10 seconds to dial a seven-digit number.
Pocket. In the 1950s (and into the 1960s), telephones were more than just a means of communication — they were pretty household decorations! In the decades to follow, phone colors segued to the avocado green, harvest gold and burnt orange colors so popular in the 70s — followed by the oh-so-boring brown and beige phones that dominated the 80s.
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.
To alleviate over-crowding, the FCC approved 10 new channels in December 1983. You can still buy a phone that uses channels in the 1.7-MHz frequency range, but all cordless phones manufactured after Oct. 1, 1984, must operate on the new 46- and 49-MHz channels. ALSO SEE. Look how colorful vintage phones used to be!
Telephone history: Antique phones from 1920-1930. These six images were part of a series of photographs by Theodor Horydczak, all featuring the rotary-dial telephones in use at the time. Based on the technology shown, the pictures were apparently taken sometime between 1920 and 1930.
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.
These vintage touch-tone phones – featuring push buttons, speed and musical tones – represented a totally new signaling system, and opened the way to increased versatility in communications. See the revolutionary Picturephone – an early version of Zoom (yes, you could actually video chat in the 1960s!)
The control unit has a telephone handset, a Speakerphone, and a set of Touchtone telephone push buttons. ALSO SEE: See some vintage touch-tone phones with old-fashioned push buttons. One objective of the experiment is to observe the relative use given to the telephone handset and the Speakerphone.