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  2. British telephone socket - Wikipedia

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    In the UK, however, many telephone circuits still have an anti-tinkle connection between the master socket and extensions on a third wire. But such a 3-wire interface is not the symmetric interface needed for balanced twisted-pair transmission lines, and therefore prone to electromagnetic interference and crosstalk with nearby other wiring. It ...

  3. Telephone jack and plug - Wikipedia

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    In many residences, though, the boundary between utility-owned and household-owned cabling is a network interface on an outside wall known as the demarcation point; all wall jacks in the home are part of the household's internal wiring. telephone cord to telephone set base: This connection is generally not regulated, but instead follows de ...

  4. 600 series connector - Wikipedia

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    600 series connectors. A 600 series connector is an obsolete three-pin connector with up to six conductors.. It was for many years the standard telephone service connector in Australia, used on rural party lines and the national Postmaster-General's Department (later Telstra) landline network, but has since the 1970s been superseded by the six position modular connector in this application.

  5. TAE connector - Wikipedia

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    TAE socket. A typical TAE installation is a multi-socket junction box with at least one N connector and one F connector socket in the box, but having usually two N and one F connector. Up to three N connectors are possible. Network service enters the box and connects to pins 1 and 2 on the right-most N connector.

  6. Phone connector (audio) - Wikipedia

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    Phone plug mated in a phone socket. The plug's grooved tip is held firmly by the socket's spring tip contact. When not mated, this spring instead connects to the flat switch contact for detecting a plug. TS and TRS plugs of different sizes. A phone connector is a family of cylindrically-shaped electrical connectors primarily for analog audio ...

  7. Telephone line - Wikipedia

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    Utility pole with electric lines (top) and telephone cables. Fixed telephone lines per 100 inhabitants, 1997–2007. Cross section of telephone cable of 1,800 twisted pairs, 1922. A telephone line or telephone circuit (or just line or circuit industrywide) is a single-user circuit on a telephone communication system. [1]

  8. Electrical connector - Wikipedia

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    The telephone jack of manual telephone switchboards, which is the socket fitting the original 1 ⁄ 4 inch (6.35 mm) telephone plug The 1 ⁄ 4 inch (6.35 mm) phone jack common to many electronic applications in various configurations, sometimes referred to as a headphone jack

  9. Electrical wiring - Wikipedia

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    The first rubber-insulated cables for US building wiring were introduced in 1922 with US patent 1458803, Burley, Harry & Rooney, Henry, "Insulated electric wire", issued 1923-06-12, assigned to Boston Insulated Wire and Cable . These were two or more solid copper electrical wires with rubber insulation, plus woven cotton cloth over each ...