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On This Day In Telephone History January 11TH 1952 – AT&T announced trial of Aluminum Conductor Cable when the National Production Authority granted requests to free aluminum for this purpose. Copper was on short allowance because of military needs. The copper shortage cleared up during the year.
On This Day In Telephone History January 10TH 1967 RCA and Western Electric announced the joint development of a computerized type setting system that automatically adjusts line spacing eliminating hyphens. The system, called Autoscript, uses an RCA Spectra 70/25 computer and a phototypesetter to produce a continuous flow of Bell System technical documents.
On This Day in Telephone History January 9TH 1894 New England Telephone & Telegraph put in service the First Complete Common Battery (non-multiple) telephone switchboard at the Lexington, MA Telephone Exchange.
On This Day in Telephone History January 8TH 1962 Mediphone, a drug information center, opened in Washington, D. C. The center was capable of supplying detailed data on more than 8,000 drugs to doctors throughout the country by telephone. Data is arranged in manageable form with techniques and equipment supplied by Remington Rand, IBM, and … Read more
On This Day in Telephone History January 7TH 1927 New York-London Telephone Service opened. First Transatlantic Service opened at 8:30AM EST. Big list waiting eagerly.
On This Day in Telephone History On January 6TH 1927, one day prior to the “official” ceremonial opening of AT&T’s commercial transatlantic telephone service between New York and London, a transatlantic “test” call was made and recorded. The call originated at the Bell Telephone Building’s 26TH floor in NYC at 9:35AM EST (2:35PM GMT). The … Read more
On This Day in Telephone History January 5TH 1914 Northern Electric Company, Ltd., of Canada, was incorporated through merger of Imperial Wire and Cable and Northern Electric & Manufacturing Company, Ltd. Northern Electric was the manufacturing branch of the Bell System in Canada.
On This Day in Telephone History January 4TH 1923 The first simultaneous broadcasting by wire-connected radio stations happened. The first chain, or network broadcast, linked WEAF in New York, and WNAC in Boston. The broadcast was part of the program at the annual dinner of the Massachusetts Bankers’ Association, at the Copley Plaza Hotel, Boston.
On This Day in Telephone History January 3RD 1963 Bell Laboratories engineers succeeded in getting the transmitter and receiver of Telstar® 1 to operate on command from the ground. The command circuit had stopped working on November 23,1962. On February 21, 1963, radiation knocked the satellite out permanently.
On This Day in Telephone History January 1ST 1935, AT&T offered private line channel network for extensive photo transmission (telephotograph) to the Associated Press. This established the first transcontinental telephotograph network. The first AP photo sent by wire depicted the crash of a small plane in New York State’s Adirondack Mountains.