 Discover 130 years of telephone history at one of our country’s finest exhibits of antique telephones and equipment.
This educational resource starts with a look at Alexander Graham Bell's invention and travels through the era of crank phones, local operators, party lines, automatic dialing systems, and wireless technology.
Visitors will take a walk down memory lane and experience a working demonstration of an operator switchboard, payphone and automatic dialing system.
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Did you know...
In 1919 AT&T conducted more than 4000 measurements of people's heads to gauge the best dimensions of their headsets so that callers' lips would be near the microphone when holding handsets up to their ears.
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