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  2. Candlestick telephone - Wikipedia

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    A Western Electric desk stand telephone of the 1920s and 30s. The candlestick telephone (or pole telephone) is a style of telephone that was common from the late 1890s to the 1940s. A candlestick telephone is also often referred to as a desk stand, an upright, or a stick phone. Candlestick telephones featured a mouthpiece (transmitter) mounted ...

  3. Design Line telephone - Wikipedia

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    The Americana Edition Wall Telephone (a modern reproduction of Western Electric's 1892 oak magneto wall set) (rotary only) Other Design Line telephones available in the 1970s and early 1980s include: [1] Accent (resembles a Princess phone, available in blue, green or yellow with wicker or detective paper inlay) (rotary and touch-tone)

  4. 7 Antique Items From the 1700s That Are Worth Thousands of ...

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    In an era where it’s easy to buy a mass-produced clock at a low price, the Antique Wall Clock from the Georgian Period still commands a high price tag of $2,327 and that’s after a discount ...

  5. Western Electric hand telephone sets - Wikipedia

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    A typical Western Electric hand telephone set of c. 1930. It consists of a handset mounting with the handset held in a cradle, and a subscriber set mounted against a wall or vertical surface in close proximity. Shown is a B1A hand telephone set, also known as the type 102B-3 hand telephone set.

  6. History of the telephone - Wikipedia

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    1917 wall telephone, open to show magneto and local battery. Early telephones were technically diverse. Some of them used liquid transmitters which soon went out of use. Others were dynamic: their diaphragms vibrated a coil of wire in the field of a permanent magnet or vice versa.

  7. Herrmann wall telephone - Wikipedia

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    The Herrmann wall telephone, also known as the "privileged phone", was a type of telephone, created by the Portuguese inventor, Maximiliano Augusto Herrmann, in 1880. The pioneering use of buttons to activate the telephone played a fundamental role to the opening of public lines in the main cities of Portugal . [ 1 ]

  8. Connections Museum - Wikipedia

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    The Connections Museum (formerly the Herbert H. Warrick Jr. Museum of Communications, originally the Vintage Telephone Equipment Museum) is located in Centurylink's Duwamish Central Office at East Marginal Way S. and Corson Avenue S. in Seattle's Georgetown neighborhood. It "reveals the history of the telephone and the equipment that makes it ...

  9. Model 500 telephone - Wikipedia

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    A 1959 Western Electric model 554 wall phone, derived from the model 500 desk phone. It uses the same internal components, dial, and handset as a desk phone. Several telephone models were derived from the basic model 500, using some of the same components. The model 554 was a wall-mounted version.