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  2. Candlestick telephone - Wikipedia

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    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 at the top of the stand, and a receiver (earphone) that was ...

  3. History of the telephone in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The telephone played a major communications role in American history from the 1876 publication of its first patent by Alexander Graham Bell onward. In the 20th century the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) dominated the telecommunication market as the at times largest company in the world, until it was broken up in 1982 and replaced by a system of competitors.

  4. List of the most popular names in the 1930s in the United ...

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    Most Popular 1000 Names of the 1930s from the Social Security Administration This page was last edited on 14 January 2023, at 01:30 (UTC). Text is available ...

  5. List of American women photographers - Wikipedia

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    Adrien Broom (born 1980), fashion and fine art photographer specializing in images of young women; Zoe Lowenthal Brown (1927–2022), fine art photography, documentary photographic "visual essays", and portraiture. Esther Bubley (1921–1998), expressive photos of ordinary people, later specializing in children in hospitals and other medical themes

  6. Your old cell phone may be worth more than you think

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    If old cell phones aren't the only vintage items you have stored away in your home, take a look at what some of the most valuable VHS tapes are going for. Related Articles AOL

  7. 30 Color Photos Photographers Took 100 Years Ago That Still ...

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    Image credits: Photoglob Zürich "The product name Kodachrome resurfaced in the 1930s with a three-color chromogenic process, a variant that we still use today," Osterman continues.

  8. History of the telephone - Wikipedia

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    Starting in the 1930s, the base of the telephone also enclosed its bell and induction coil, obviating the need for a separate ringer box. Power was supplied to each subscriber line by central-office batteries instead of the user's local battery, which required periodic service.

  9. ‘Most of mine don’t have actual names’: The unlikely trend of ...

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    If you do keep a list, it does beg the question of how you use it when you aren’t adding more names. “I don’t look at it often,” says Jess*, 30, who started keeping a list after her first ...