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On This Day in Telephone History November 20TH 1953 – Birmingham, Michigan gets Nationwide Direct Dial Service. This was the second community after Englewood, N. J., to have this service.
On This Day in Telephone History November 19TH 1956 The First of a Series of one-hour Color Television Programs on science inaugurated by the Bell System over CBS network. First was titled “Our Mr. Sun.”
On This Day in Telephone History November 18TH 1963 Touch·Tone® Service, featuring telephones with push-buttons instead of rotary dials, introduced in Carnegie and Greensburg, Pa., following marketing trials in Pennsylvania and Ohio. Service was offered on an optional basis at an extra charge.
On This Day in Telephone History November 17TH 1915 Western Electric Company was incorporated under the laws of the State of New York, and took over the business of the Western Electric Company, of Illinois.
On This Day in Telephone History November 16TH 1892 100 pair, 19 gauge Telephone Cables came into use. Some 20,000 miles of Bell System Wire was working underground by this time.
On This Day in Telephone History November 15TH 1898 Telephone Service Opened between New York and Kansas City, Mo.
On This Day in Telephone History November 14TH 1961 – Western Electric officially turned over the DEW Line to the U.S. Air Force. The Distant Early Warning Line, also known as the DEW Line, was a system of radar stations in the far northern Arctic region of Canada, with additional stations along the North Coast … Read more
On This Day in Telephone History November 13TH 1888 Patent Issued for Crisscrossing of Overhead Telephone Wire to Prevent Crosstalk Between Parallel Lines. Patent issued on an elementary scheme of wire transpositions which had been worked out by John A. Barrett, who had been assigned to this work for the Bell System, beginning in 1885. … Read more
On This Day in Telephone History November 12TH 1954 Two Miles of Line Wire laid on crossarms of Telephone poles in California mountain country from a Helicopter.
On This Day in Telephone History November 11TH 1921 Burial of the “Unknown Soldier” Loudspeakers Interconnected By AT&T Long Distance Telephone Lines. Exercises at burial of the “Unknown Soldier” at Arlington, Virginia, heard by 150,000 people in gatherings at Arlington, New York, and San Francisco, over loudspeakers interconnected by AT&T long distance telephone lines.