On This Day in Telephone History April 22ND 1964
Bell System Exhibit at the New York World’s Fair Opened.
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On This Day in Telephone History April 21ST 1962
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 20TH 1964
The picturephone debuts at the New York Worlds Fair with the first transcontinental video call to Disneyland California.
On This Day in Telephone History April 19TH 1878
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 18TH 1906
Earthquake and Fire Swept San Francisco Destroying 490 Blocks of the City Service to the City’s 50,000 Telephones Completely Disrupted. Only two Central Offices Escaped Serious Damage. within two Months 9,000 Telephones were back in Service. Another 20,000 Restored By January 1st .
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 … Read more
On This Day in Telephone History April 16TH 1903
On This Day in Telephone History, April 16, 1903, Load of Telephone Poles Delivered.
On This Day in Telephone History April 15TH 1956
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
On This Day in Telephone History March 22ND 1970
On This Day in Telephone History March 22ND 1970 – The highest capacity undersea cable to date was placed in service. The fifth transatlantic cable (3,500 miles) was part of a $100 million communications system. The new cable could handle more than 800 simultaneous telephone conversations, or a combination of telephone, teletypewriter, data and facsimile. … Read more
On This Day in Telephone History February 23RD 1959
On This Day in Telephone History February 23RD 1959 ‘The Telephone Man’ makes it to the cover of Time Magazine.