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On This Day in Telephone History April 25TH 1954

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On This Day in Telephone History April 25, 1954, 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 and trouble-free.NOTE: THE STORAGE BATTERIES BESIDE THE SOLAR BATTERY STORE UP ITS ELECTRICITY FOR NIGHT USE.

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

On This Day in Telephone History April 24TH 1879

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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 trade as early as possible." The foreign trade had begun. Then there came a thunderbolt out of a blue sky, a wholly unforeseen disaster. Just as a few energetic companies were sprouting up, the Postmaster General suddenly proclaimed that the telephone was a species of telegraph. from The History of the Telephone By Herbert Newton Casson.

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

On This Day in Telephone History April 19TH 1878

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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.

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.

On This Day in Telephone History April 17TH all this Telephone Stuff Happened

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On This Day in Telephone History April 17TH all this telephone stuff happened: 1957 Bell Laboratories announced development of magnetic tape machine capable of transmitting 1,000 words a minute -16 times faster than conventional teletypewriter systems. 1963 AT&T introduced the new cable ship long lines at Baltimore. the $19 million vessel, first of her type to be built for operation under the U.S. flag, was designed to string and repair cables across the world's ocean floors. 1968 AT&T unveiled an experimental model of a new telephone at its annual meeting in Boston. smaller, lighter and largely electronic, it weighs less than half as much as today's phones owing its lightness to integrated circuits.

1957 Bell Laboratories announced development of magnetic tape machine capable of transmitting 1,000 words a minute -16 times faster than conventional teletypewriter systems. 1963 AT&T introduced the new cable ship long lines at Baltimore. the $19 million vessel, first of her type to be built for operation under the U.S. flag, was designed to string … Read more

On This Day in Telephone History April 15TH 1956

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On This Day in Telephone History April 15TH 1956 San Diego, CA became first large city where all customers could dial their own calls to millions of other telephones in metropolitan areas from coast to coast.

On This Day in Telephone History April 15, 1956, San Diego, CA became first large city where all customers could dial their own calls to millions of other telephones in metropolitan areas from coast to coast.PRIOR TO DIRECT DISTANCE DIALING LONG DISTANCE TELEPHONE CALLS WERE PLACED THROUGH A LONG DISTANCE OPERATOR