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Contempra was the first phone designed in Canada, [1] previous Canadian sets having been designed in the US for Western Electric and built under licence. Contempra was highly stylized, using straight lines and oblique angles where curves and corners would be found on contemporary sets like the Trimline .
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 ...
A vintage Post Office Telephones van, dating from 1946. Until October 1969, the GPO had a monopoly on the provision of all telephone lines and telephones within the UK, other than in Kingston upon Hull, which for historical reasons was unique in maintaining its own municipal telephone service. From the 1st of October 1969, the Post Office ...
The Ericofon was designed in the late 1940s by a design team including Gösta Thames, Ralph Lysell, and Hugo Blomberg. [3] The two major components of the telephone, the handset and the dial, are combined in a single unit. This one-piece design anticipated the evolution of the typical cordless phone and cell phone by several decades.
The telephone played a major communications role in American history from the 1876 publication of its first patent by Alexander Graham Bell onward. In the 20th century the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) dominated the telecommunication market as the at times largest company in the world, until it was broken up in 1982 and replaced by a system of competitors.
1 July 1881: The world's first international telephone call is made between St. Stephen, New Brunswick, Canada, and Calais, Maine, United States. [22] 11 October 1881: The Sydney telephone exchange opened with 12 subscribers. 1882: A telephone company—an American Bell Telephone Company affiliate—is set up in Mexico City.
Image credits: Detroit Photograph Company "There was a two-color process invented around 1913 by Kodak that used two glass plates in contact with each other, one being red-orange and the other ...
The Americana Edition Wall Telephone (a modern reproduction of Western Electric's 1892 oak magneto wall set) (rotary only) Other Design Line telephones available in the 1970s and early 1980s include: [1] Accent (resembles a Princess phone, available in blue, green or yellow with wicker or detective paper inlay) (rotary and touch-tone)