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On This Day in Telephone History June 13TH 1920 US Post Office stops mailing Children by parcel post. PARENTS MAILED THEIR CHILDREN BECAUSE IT WAS CHEAPER THAN OTHER WAYS TO TRAVEL. The weight limit was 50 pounds. HOWEVER, AFTER VARIOUS “INSTANCES” OCCURRED, THE US POST OFFICE DECIDED CHILDREN CAN NOT BE SENT BY PARCEL POST.
On this day in Telephone History June 12TH 1900 the Kinloch Long Distance Telephone Company of St. Louis, MO. was organized.
On This Day in Telephone History June 11TH 2002 The United States House of Representatives passed a resolution honoring Italian immigrant Antonio Meucci for his contributions and work developing the design of a talking telegraph or telephone in 1849.
On This Day in Telephone History June 10TH 1936 First Bell System coaxial cable put in service for television use. 1.5 miles long from NBC studio to transmitter on the Empire State Building, New York City.
On This Day in Telephone History June 9TH 1941 the first two-pair coaxial conductor telephone cable was put into commercial service. It was the first in a series of carrier systems called the L-carrier system. The 195 mile coaxial cable was installed between Stevens Point, WI and Minneapolis, MN.
On This Day in Telephone History June 8TH 1877 J. Emery, Jr., of Charlestown, MA signed the first telephone lease. Emery was also the first to pay his Telephone service rental bill. $20 for 2 telephones for 1 year.
On This Day in Telephone History June 5TH 1946 Telephone switchboard operator Julia Curran Berry becomes Heroine of the La Salle Hotel Fire. Forty-four year old widow Julia Curran Berry was the nighttime telephone switchboard operator at the La Salle Hotel when fire broke out. It spread quickly through the hotel’s highly-varnished paneling, traveled up … Read more
On This Day in Telephone History June 3RD 1880 Alexander Graham Bell transmitted the first wireless telephone message using Photophone apparatus from the top of the Franklin School in Franklin Square at 13th and K Streets in Washington, DC. The signal was sent to 1325 L Street.
On This Day in Telephone History June 3RD 1875 The first “gallows type” telephone tested by Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas A. Watson in an attic room at 109 Court Street. It transmitted recognizable sounds, but not intelligible speech.
On This Day in Telephone History June 2ND 1875 Twang of reed transmitted over harmonic telegraph wire confirmed Alexander Graham Bell‘s speech transmission theory. This event occurred at the Charles Williams, Jr.’s, shop, 109 Court Street, Boston. “I had charge of the transmitters as usual, setting them squealing one after the other, while Bell was … Read more