On This Day in Telephone History, May 13TH 1916, the first flag was flown from ATT Headquarters in honor of New York's Preparedness Parade. This was a United States flag, 25 x 40 feet in size, flown on a staff 137 feet above the roof-360 feet from the curb at 195 Broadway in NYC.
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On This Day in Telephone History May 11TH 1967
On This Day in Telephone History May 11TH 1967 President Johnson received a gold Trimline® telephone with Touch-Tone® service. He used it to talk with governors, other state officials and telephone people across the country over a special communications network. The call went to 47 states, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. H. I. Romnes, … Read more
On This Day in Telephone History May 11TH 1877
On This Day in Telephone History May 11TH 1877 – Alexander Graham Bell gave a preview demonstration of “Telephone Over Wire” from Brooklyn, N. Y., to the St. Denis Hotel at Eleventh Street and Broadway in Greenwich Village, New York City. 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 Smile for Us 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂
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.