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On This Day In Telephone History May 30TH 1965 The First Electronic Switching System in the Bell System was placed into service. The very first of the No.1 Electronic Switching System (ESS) commercial installations of the Bell System was in Succasunna, New Jersey. It initially served 200 of the town’s 4,300 customers after opening. It … Read more
On This Day in Telephone History May 29TH 1900 Loading was first applied commercially to telephone circuits in a cable between Jamaica Plain and West Newton.
On This Day in Telephone History May 28TH 1961 Terrorists destroyed three AT&T telephone relay stations in Nevada and Utah. Two men later convicted on charges of conspiracy and obstructing vital communications.
On This Day in Telephone History May 25TH 1876 Alexander Graham Bell lectured on telephony before MIT Society of Arts in Boston. “Prof. A. Graham Bell read a paper, illustrated by several experiments, on ‘telephony,’ or the telegraphing of musical sounds” – quotation from MIT’s Institute Archives and Special Collections of the Society’s handwritten minutes. … Read more
On This Day in Telephone History May 24TH 1915 Thomas Edison markets the “Telescribe” to record telephone conversations. The Telescribe was a combination of the Telephone and the Dictating Phonograph
ON THIS DAY IN TELEPHONE HISTORY MAY 23RD 1954 AT 12:05 AM EST THE CHESAPEAKE & POTOMAC TELEPHONE COMPANY OF WASHINGTON, DC CHANGED TELEPHONE SERVICE FROM MANUAL TO DIAL.
On This Day in Telephone History May 22ND 1919, Grace Banker was awarded the U.S. Army’s Distinguished Service Medal for “exceptionally meritorious service to the Government in a duty of great responsibility in connection with the operations against an armed enemy of the United States.” Banker was a French-speaking telephone operator from Passaic, New Jersey. … Read more
On This Day in Telephone History May 21ST 1878 Thomas A. Watson recommended Alexander Graham Bell acquire the rights to the Berliner Transmitter. Curious about Emile Berliner’s Transmitter Caveat of April 14, 1877, Thomas A. Watson journeyed to Washington, DC, to view the Berliner Transmitter. Upon examination, Watson recommended Alexander Graham Bell acquire the rights … Read more
On This Day in Telephone History May 20TH 1939 Standard telephone cable pairs were used as a local pick-up channel for television broadcast of “Six Days of New York” bicycle race at Madison Square Garden, New York City.
On This Day in Telephone History May 19TH 1924 ATT’s first public demonstration of transmission of pictures over telephone wires. Bell System engineers’ transmission occurred from Cleveland, OH to New York City.