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  2. Rotary dial - Wikipedia

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    A rotary dial is a component of a telephone or a telephone switchboard that implements a signaling technology in telecommunications known as pulse dialing. It is used when initiating a telephone call to transmit the destination telephone number to a telephone exchange .

  3. Dial tone - Wikipedia

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    The Bell Telephone Manufacturing Company (BTMC) in Antwerp, Belgium, Western Electric's international subsidiary, first introduced dial tone as a standard facility with the cutover of the 7A Rotary Automatic Machine Switching System at Darlington, England, on 10 October 1914. Dial tone was an essential feature, because the 7A Rotary system was ...

  4. File:Rotary Dial, Dialing Back with LEDs.ogv - Wikipedia

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    English: A rotary dial, used for pulse dialing seen from the back while dialing. Two LEDs have been attached, to show the two switches the dial operates. One (red LED) is normally open (NO), and is closed when the rotor is drawn back and remains closed until the rotor fully returns.

  5. Dialling (telephony) - Wikipedia

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    DTMF keypad layout. Introduced to the public in 1963 by AT&T, Touch-Tone dialing greatly shortened the time of initiating a telephone call.It also enabled direct signaling from a telephone across the long-distance network using audio-frequency tones, which was impossible with the rotary dials that generated digital direct current pulses that had to be decoded by the local central office.

  6. Phreaking - Wikipedia

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    Phreaking began in the 1960s when it was discovered that certain whistles could replicate the 2600 Hz pitch used in phone signalling systems in the United States. [3] Phone phreaks experimented with dialing around the telephone network to understand how the phone system worked, engaging in activities such as listening to the pattern of tones to figure out how calls were routed, reading obscure ...

  7. Portal:Telephones - Wikipedia

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    A rotary dial telephone, c. 1940s. A telephone, colloquially referred to as a phone, is a telecommunications device that enables two or more users to conduct a conversation when they are too far apart to be easily heard directly.

  8. AOL Dialer: Fix common problems - AOL Help

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    4. From the Dialing Options screen, check the box labeled, “I have to dial this number to turn off call waiting". 5. Confirm the proper code is listed. For most telephone services, this code is *70. Note: It’s possible your phone company uses a different code or you may not have an active call waiting subscription. In these cases, dialing ...

  9. Pulse dialing - Wikipedia

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    The model 500 rotary dial telephone by Western Electric was a pulse-dialing instrument. Pulse dialing is a signaling technology in telecommunications in which a direct current local loop circuit is interrupted according to a defined coding system for each signal transmitted, usually a digit. This lends the method the often used name loop ...