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2. Push-button telephone - Wikipedia

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   A push-button telephone is a telephone that has buttons or keys for dialing a telephone number, in contrast to a rotary dial used in earlier telephones.. Western Electric experimented as early as 1941 with methods of using mechanically activated reeds to produce two tones for each of the ten digits and by the late 1940s such technology was field-tested in a No. 5 Crossbar switching system in ...

3. Rotary dial - Wikipedia

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   From the 1960s onward, the rotary dial was gradually supplanted by push-button telephones, first introduced to the public at the 1962 World's Fair under the trade name Touch-Tone (DTMF). Touch-tone technology primarily used a keypad in the form of a rectangular array of push-buttons. Although no longer in common use, the rotary dial's legacy ...

4. Model 500 telephone - Wikipedia

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   Original sets used a transistor oscillator; newer phones use an integrated circuit. The model 1500 only had push buttons for the ten digits, while the model 2500 used 12 keys and included the '*' and '#' DTMF signals to allow for extra signaling needed in advanced service features, such as voice response systems and call management. [citation ...

5. Things Boomers Took for Granted That are Obsolete Now

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   Rotary Telephones. 1919-1975 Although Bell developed a primitive version in 1950, it took until 1975 for push button phones to make an impact. Tone-enabled features like call waiting and three-way ...

6. Timeline of the telephone - Wikipedia

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   1960s: Bell Labs developed the electronics for cellular phones; 1961: Initiation of Touch-Tone service trials; 1962: T-1 service in Skokie, Illinois; 18 November 1963: AT&T commences the first subscriber Touch-Tone service in the towns of Carnegie and Greensburg, Pennsylvania, using push-button telephones that replaced rotary dial instruments.

7. Telephone keypad - Wikipedia

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   A telephone keypad is a keypad installed on a push-button telephone or similar telecommunication device for dialing a telephone number. It was standardized when the dual-tone multi-frequency signaling (DTMF) system was developed in the Bell System in the United States in the 1960s – this replaced rotary dialing, that had been developed for ...