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  2. Rotary dial - Wikipedia

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    Before 1960 Australian rotary dial telephones had each number's corresponding letter printed on a paper disc in the centre of the plate, with space where the subscriber could add the phone number. The paper was protected by a clear plastic disc, held in place by a form of retaining ring which also served to locate the disc radially. The ...

  3. Model 500 telephone - Wikipedia

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    The model 554 was a wall-mounted version. Other special-purpose models included additional features. This included phones with dial lights (500U), party line sets (501), keysets (540 and 560 series), call directors, panel phones (750 series), industrial and outdoor phones (520 and 525), and automatic dialers (660). [8]

  4. Trimline telephone - Wikipedia

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    A 220 Trimline rotary desk phone, showing the innovative rotary dial with moving fingerstop Early Touch Tone Trimline with round buttons and clear plastic backplate and round non-modular handset cord Redesigned touch-tone desk model Trimline, manufactured on January 9, 1985 The Trimline 2225, one of the last phones made at the Indianapolis Works in 1986 Early foreign made Trimline, December ...

  5. Vertical service code - Wikipedia

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    A vertical service code (VSC) is a sequence of digits and the signals star (*) and pound/hash (#) dialed on a telephone keypad or rotary dial to access certain telephone service features. [1] Some vertical service codes require dialing of a telephone number after the code sequence.

  6. Gen Z Confirms Landlines Are Cool Again

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    As rotary phone collector Andrew Nodell from Brooklyn tells House Beautiful, “I’ve always been fascinated by the conversations that may have happened through them—news of weddings, war, love ...

  7. Western Electric hand telephone sets - Wikipedia

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    Internals of a subscriber set (type 534A), issued c. 1930, for either a candlestick, or any 102-type hand telephone set. The components include a ringer, and induction coil, and a capacitor underneath the wooden connecting block. This type was directly derived from the candlestick telephone.

  8. 999 (emergency telephone number) - Wikipedia

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    US-style rotary phone. The choice of 999 was fortunate for accessibility, because in the dark or in dense smoke 999 could be dialled by placing a finger one hole away from the dial stop (see the articles on rotary dial and GPO telephones) and rotating the dial to the full extent three times. This enables all users including the visually ...

  9. What is a ‘wind phone’? Concept helps offer comfort to those ...

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    Nestled in a neighborhood in East Nashville is a phone booth that no longer rings but offers a bit of respite to those grieving a lost loved one. ... which now holds an old rotary phone. Telephone ...