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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
So, On This Day in Telephone History May 31ST 1878, the Bell Telephone Company of Boston awarded franchise rights to the Connecticut District Telephone Company. This happened because the New Haven District Telephone Company, which incorporated in January of 1878, was reorganized as the Connecticut District Telephone Company on May 28TH. And, the New Haven … Read more
On This Day In Telephone History May 30TH 1965 The First Electronic Switching System in the Bell System was placed into service. The very first of the No.1 Electronic Switching System (ESS) commercial installations of the Bell System was in Succasunna, New Jersey. It initially served 200 of the town’s 4,300 customers after opening. It … Read more
On This Day in Telephone History May 29TH 1900 Loading was first applied commercially to telephone circuits in a cable between Jamaica Plain and West Newton.
On This Day in Telephone History May 28TH 1961 Terrorists destroyed three AT&T telephone relay stations in Nevada and Utah. Two men later convicted on charges of conspiracy and obstructing vital communications.
On This Day in Telephone History May 25TH 1876 Alexander Graham Bell lectured on telephony before MIT Society of Arts in Boston. “Prof. A. Graham Bell read a paper, illustrated by several experiments, on ‘telephony,’ or the telegraphing of musical sounds” – quotation from MIT’s Institute Archives and Special Collections of the Society’s handwritten minutes. … Read more
On This Day in Telephone History May 24TH 1915 Thomas Edison markets the “Telescribe” to record telephone conversations. The Telescribe was a combination of the Telephone and the Dictating Phonograph