On This Day in Telephone History June 20TH 1961
On This Day in Telephone History June 20TH 1961 New Jersey Bell Telephone Company‘s 3 Millionth telephone installed
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On This Day in Telephone History June 19TH 1900
On This Day in Telephone History June 19TH 1900 Prof. Michael I. Pupin, of Columbia University, patented a method for using the loading coil to carry talk over greater distances. Pupin and Dr. G. A. Campbell, of the Bell System, working independently, each had proved that loading coils placed at regular and frequent intervals in … Read more
On This Day in Telephone History June 18TH 1954
On This Day in Telephone History June 18TH 1954 Handset with shoulder rest made standard offering. The shoulder support is removable and can be plugged onto the handset grip.
On This Day in Telephone History June 17TH 1914
On This Day in Telephone History June 17TH 1914, the First Telephone Line across the United States, from the East Coast to the West Coast, was connected. In Wendover, Utah, The last pole was erected on the First Transcontinental telephone line. AT&T erected the last of some 130,000 poles at Wendover, and the wires were … Read more
On This Day in Telephone History June 16TH 1950
On This Day in Telephone History June 16TH 1950 AT&T’s redesigned Perforated Tape Relay Equipment became the most extensive state teletypewriter system used for law enforcement in the California Department of Justice teletypewriter network.
On This Day in Telephone History June 15TH 1951
On This Day in Telephone History June 15TH 1951 the first large scale Intercity Theatre Television went online. The Louis – Savold boxing match was carried to Intercity Theatres from Madison Square Garden on closed‐circuit TV over AT&T Telephone networks. It became the first professional prizefight to be televised.
On This Day in Telephone History June 14TH 1878
On This Day in Telephone History June 14TH 1878 The Telephone Company Ltd. was registered in London. With premises at 36 Coleman Street, marketing of Alexander Graham Bell‘s telephones officially began in the UK. It had a capacity for 150 lines and opened with 7 or 8 subscribers. One of the first telephone lines to … Read more
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.