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  2. Model 500 telephone - Wikipedia

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    The Western Electric 500-type telephone replaced the 300-type, which had been produced since 1936. The model 500 line was designed by the firm of industrial designer Henry Dreyfuss, the product of several years of research and testing in collaboration with Bell Laboratories and Western Electric. Development started in 1946 with early sketches ...

  3. Rotary dial - Wikipedia

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    Face of a 1939 Western Electric 302 or 202 rotary dial showing the telephone number LA-2697, which includes the first two letters of Lakewood, New Jersey In North America, traditional dials have letter codes displayed with the numbers under the finger holes in the following pattern: 1, 2 ABC, 3 DEF, 4 GHI, 5 JKL, 6 MNO, 7 PRS, 8 TUV, 9 WXY, and ...

  4. Trimline telephone - Wikipedia

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    This was accomplished by moving the dial from the telephone's base to the underside of the handset, between the earpiece and mouthpiece. [1] The same concept was later used for cellular telephone and cordless telephone models. To miniaturize the rotary dial sufficiently to fit in the Trimline handset, the designers invented an unusual moving ...

  5. Western Electric hand telephone sets - Wikipedia

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    The type D handset mounting was the most common Western Electric hand telephone set produced from 1930 to c. 1939, and refurbished well into the 1950s. It has an oval-shaped footprint of the base, and replaced the B handset mounting in the 102-telephone, and was also the core of the 202 hand telephone set.

  6. Princess telephone - Wikipedia

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    The telephone was produced at the Western Electric Indianapolis, and later Shreveport Works plants, also the production location of 500 and 2500 series telephones. The Trimline telephone is often confused with the Princess because the Trimline dial lights up, although the dial on the Trimline is in the handset.

  7. Western Electric - Wikipedia

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    Western Electric Co., Inc. was an American electrical engineering and manufacturing company that operated from 1869 to 1996. A subsidiary of the AT&T Corporation for most of its lifespan, Western Electric was the primary manufacturer, supplier, and purchasing agent for all telephone equipment for the Bell System from 1881 until 1984, when the Bell System was dismantled.

  8. Candlestick telephone - Wikipedia

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    A Western Electric desk stand telephone of the 1920s and 30s. The candlestick telephone (or pole telephone) is a style of telephone that was common from the late 1890s to the 1940s. A candlestick telephone is also often referred to as a desk stand, an upright, or a stick phone. Candlestick telephones featured a mouthpiece (transmitter) mounted ...

  9. Model 302 telephone - Wikipedia

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    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.

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