On This Day in Telephone History May 29TH 1900
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.
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On This Day in Telephone History May 25TH 1876
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
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 September 14TH 1966
On This Day in Telephone History September 14TH 1966 AT&T Stopped Accepting Collect Calls from Cuba. Because of a $2 million balance of payments problem, AT&T stopped accepting collect calls from Cuba to the U.S. In response, the Cubans would not permit either collect calls from the U.S. or calls paid for in Cuba to … Read more
On This Day in Telephone History August 27TH 1896
On This Day in Telephone History August 27TH 1896 Rotary Dial Telephones were put into Service in the Milwaukee, Wisconsin City Hall
On This Day in Telephone History August 6TH 1940
On This Day in Telephone History August 6TH 1940 W.H. Doherty of Bell Telephone Laboratories was granted U.S. Patent 2,210,028 on a high efficiency amplifier for radio transmission which speedily came into wide use.