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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 21ST 1962

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President Kennedy Opened the Seattle World's Fair via Telephone Lines.President Kennedy, in West Palm Beach, pressed a Telegraph Key that sent a signal over Telephone Lines to the Bell System's Earth Station at Andover, ME., To officially open the Seattle World's Fair. From Andover the giant horn antenna focused on Cassiopeia a and picked up energy emitted by the star that was relayed by Earth Telephone lines to Seattle.

President Kennedy Opened the Seattle World’s Fair via Telephone Lines. President Kennedy, in West Palm Beach, pressed a Telegraph Key that sent a signal over Telephone Lines to the Bell System’s Earth Station at Andover, ME., to officially open the Seattle World’s Fair. From Andover the giant horn antenna focused on Cassiopeia A and picked … 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