Telephones
Telephone Muffler
Posted By: Paul - Sun Oct 13, 2024 -
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Category: Inventions, Telephones, 1910s
Forty-Five Men in a Telephone Booth
Entry for the group at Discogs.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Jul 13, 2024 -
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Category: Music, Telephones, 1950s
The Ediphone Sets You Free
Businessman likes to imagine that because he doesn't always have enough time to dictate correspondence to his secretary that he's clearly "chained down like a galley slave."More info about Ediphones.
The Reporter with Postage and the Mailbag - Sep 1939
Posted By: Alex - Tue May 21, 2024 -
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Category: Technology, Telephones, Advertising, 1930s
Meet Miss Electronic
Once upon a time answering machines were considered strange and dumbfounding.
Wilmington News Journal - Mar 31, 1956
Posted By: Alex - Thu Apr 18, 2024 -
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Category: Technology, Telephones, 1950s
1963 Prediction of Mobile Phones
In 1963 the Mansfield News-Journal predicted that, "Some day, Mansfielders will carry their telephones in their pockets."So when did the first phone debut that could be carried in a pocket? Depends on the size of the pocket, I guess. But I think it was arguably the Motorola StarTAC, that came out in 1996 — 33 years after the News-Journal prediction.
Mansfield News-Journal - Apr 18, 1963
Posted By: Alex - Fri Mar 15, 2024 -
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Category: Technology, Telephones, Yesterday’s Tomorrows
Dial Comes to Town
Posted By: Paul - Thu Nov 30, 2023 -
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Category: Family, PSA’s, Technology, Telephones, 1940s
Phone-Carrying Bra
The patent is here.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Aug 03, 2023 -
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Category: Inventions, Telephones, Underwear, Twenty-first Century
What will the telephone be like when I grow up?
Perhaps some day in the future you may just speak the number into the transmitter and get your party automatically.
The introduction of universal direct dialing was a pretty safe guess in 1953, since direct dialing had, by then, already been introduced in some places.
It's more impressive that the ad writers also successfully predicted the introduction of voice recognition technology.
Life - May 18, 1953
Posted By: Alex - Tue Jul 11, 2023 -
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Category: Technology, Telephones, 1950s, Yesterday’s Tomorrows
Call to Heaven
At least the call wasn't traced to a cemetery.
The Munster Times - Jun 8, 1950
Posted By: Alex - Sun Jun 11, 2023 -
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Category: Religion, Telephones, 1950s
Dead Opossum Design
Reported in the Los Angeles Times (June 3, 1980). Sounds like an urban legend to me. But maybe there really was a lady in Riverside who was matching her home furnishings to her dead opossum.
Posted By: Alex - Sat Apr 08, 2023 -
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Category: Animals, Telephones, Interior Decorating
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