On This Day in Telephone History April 26TH 1879
First Telephone Exchange in Toronto Canada Opened. The Toronto Telephone Dispatch Co. lasted only two years before it was bought out by the Bell Telephone Company Of Canada.
First Telephone Exchange in Toronto Canada Opened. The Toronto Telephone Dispatch Co. lasted only two years before it was bought out by the Bell Telephone Company Of Canada.
From National Day Calendar® NATIONAL TELEPHONE DAY On April 25th, we observe National Telephone Day. Around the world, there are 9.82 billion mobile phones. And while some predicted the landline to be obsolete by 2020, there are still about 931 million landlines around the world. Obtaining a Patent The correct answer to a trivia question … Read more
Bell Solar Battery Announced by Bell Telephone Laboratories. The Solar Battery Grew out of Attempts to make a Silicon Transistor. Something new under the sun – It’s the Bell Solar Battery, made of thin discs of specially treated Silicon, an ingredient of common sand. It converts the sun’s rays directly into usable amounts of electricity. Simple … Read more
The First Telephone Call Sent Around the World. The First Telephone Call Sent Around The World Occurred in The Long Lines Building at 32 Sixth Avenue In NYC. WS Gifford and TG Miller of AT&T took part in a Historic Phone Call. Speaking on the phone from offices just 50 Feet Apart, the Call was transmitted over a Telephone … Read more
Foreign trade between the Bell Telephone Company and London England for telephone equipment began. A tiny exchange, with ten wires, was promptly started in London and on April 24, 1879, Theodore Vail, the young manager of the Bell Company, sent an order to the factory in Boston, “Please make one hundred hand telephones for export … Read more
The Soviet Union launched its First Communications Satellite and carried out transmission of television programs. The Satellite was called MOLNIYA 1.
Bell System Exhibit at the New York World’s Fair Opened.
President Kennedy Opened the Seattle World’s Fair via Telephone Lines. President Kennedy, in West Palm Beach, pressed a Telegraph Key that sent a signal over Telephone Lines to the Bell System’s Earth Station at Andover, ME., to officially open the Seattle World’s Fair. From Andover the giant horn antenna focused on Cassiopeia A and picked … Read more
The picturephone debuts at the New York Worlds Fair with the first transcontinental video call to Disneyland California.
The First Commercial Telephone Exchange in Massachusetts opened in Lowell. It was the First Massachusetts Exchange to be connected Long Distance to The Boston Telephone Dispatch Company in Boston. The Lowell Telephone Exchange merged with The Boston Telephone Dispatch Company and Transformed into The New England Telephone And Telegraph Company.