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  2. Telephone exchange names - Wikipedia

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    Telephone numbers listed in 1920 in New York City having three-letter exchange prefixes. In the United States, the most-populous cities, such as New York City, Philadelphia, Boston, and Chicago, initially implemented dial service with telephone numbers consisting of three letters and four digits (3L-4N) according to a system developed by W. G. Blauvelt of AT&T in 1917.

  3. 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 . On the rotary dial, the digits are arranged in a circular layout, with one ...

  4. Model 302 telephone - Wikipedia

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    Model 302 telephone. The model 302 telephone is a desk set telephone that was manufactured in the United States by Western Electric from 1937 until 1955, and by Northern Electric in Canada until the late 1950s, until well after the introduction of the 500-type telephone in 1949. The sets were routinely refurbished into the 1960s.

  5. Model 500 telephone - Wikipedia

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    A 1959 Western Electric model 554 wall phone, derived from the model 500 desk phone. It uses the same internal components, dial, and handset as a desk phone. Several telephone models were derived from the basic model 500, using some of the same components. The model 554 was a wall-mounted version.

  6. History of the telephone - Wikipedia

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    Old Receiver schematic, c.1906 A German rotary dial telephone, the W48 Top of cellular telephone tower. By 1904, over three million phones were connected by manual switchboard exchanges in the U.S. By 1914, the U.S. was the world leader in telephone density and had more than twice the teledensity of Sweden, New Zealand, Switzerland, and Norway.

  7. Telephone directory - Wikipedia

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    Telephone directory. A telephone directory, commonly called a telephone book, telephone address book, phonebook, or the white and yellow pages, is a listing of telephone subscribers in a geographical area or subscribers to services provided by the organization that publishes the directory. Its purpose is to allow the telephone number of a ...

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