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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. 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 ...

  4. Push-button telephone - Wikipedia

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    A push-button telephone is a telephone that has buttons or keys for dialing a telephone number, in contrast to a rotary dial used in earlier telephones.. Western Electric experimented as early as 1941 with methods of using mechanically activated reeds to produce two tones for each of the ten digits and by the late 1940s such technology was field-tested in a No. 5 Crossbar switching system in ...

  5. Western Electric hand telephone sets - Wikipedia

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    Manual (no dial) instruments were indicated by the letter suffix A (i.e. 102A) and dial instruments received the suffix B, C, or D, depending on the style of digit and letter display on the dial. [18] The B-type hand telephone sets were typically installed with a black finish (suffix -3), but sets in ivory, gray, old brass, statuary bronze, and ...

  6. Telephone - Wikipedia

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    An old rotary dial telephone AT&T push button telephone made by Western Electric, model 2500 DMG black, 1980. 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.

  7. Telephone switchboard - Wikipedia

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    PBX switchboard, 1975. A telephone switchboard is a device used to connect circuits of telephones to establish telephone calls between users or other switchboards. The switchboard is an essential component of a manual telephone exchange, and is operated by switchboard operators who use electrical cords or switches to establish the connections.