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On This Day in Telephone History May 11TH 1967

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On This Day in Telephone History May 11TH 1967 President Johnson received a gold Trimline® telephone with Touch-Tone® service. He used it to talk with governors, other state officials and telephone people across the country over a special communications network. The call went to 47 states, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. H. I. Romnes, board chairman of AT&T, presented the President with the gold phone to commemorate installation of the 100-millionth phone in the U.S.

On This Day in Telephone History May 11TH 1967 President Johnson received a gold Trimline® telephone with Touch-Tone® service. He used it to talk with governors, other state officials and telephone people across the country over a special communications network. The call went to 47 states, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. H. I. Romnes, … Read more

On This Day in Telephone History May 11TH 1877

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On This Day in Telephone History May 11TH 1877 – Alexander Graham Bell gave a preview demonstration of “telephone over wire” from Brooklyn, N. Y., to the St. Denis Hotel at Eleventh Street and Broadway in Greenwich Village, New York City.

On This Day in Telephone History May 11TH 1877 – Alexander Graham Bell gave a preview demonstration of “Telephone Over Wire” from Brooklyn, N. Y., to the St. Denis Hotel at Eleventh Street and Broadway in Greenwich Village,  New York City. 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 Smile for Us 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂

On This Day in Telephone History May 10TH 1877

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On This Day in Telephone History May 10TH 1877 the White House get its First Telephone. President Rutherford B. Hayes has the White House’s first telephone installed in the mansion’s telegraph room. The Treasury Department possessed the only other direct phone line to the White House at that time. The White House phone number was “1.” Phone service was in its infancy in 1877 and it would be more than 50 years until the first telephone line was installed in the Oval Office.

On This Day in Telephone History May 10TH 1877 the White House gets its First Telephone. President Rutherford B. Hayes has the White House’s first telephone installed in the mansion’s telegraph room. The Treasury Department possessed the only other direct phone line to the White House at that time. The White House phone number was … Read more