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  2. 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.

  3. List of principal and guide meridians and base lines of the ...

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    Primarily from the United States Government Printing Office Style Manual. [1] State names usually signify only parts of each listed state, unless otherwise indicated. Based on the BLM manual's 1973 publication date, and the reference to Clarke's Spheroid of 1866 in section 2-82, coordinates appear to be in the NAD27 datum.

  4. 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.

  5. Made it! California climbers use pioneering techniques to ...

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    Sleeping with your head in a bag works. Graham Cooper and Adrian Ballinger, California mountaineers whose acclimatization for Mt. Everest included sleeping at home with their heads in hypoxic ...

  6. 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 ...

  7. Mount Diablo meridian - Wikipedia

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    The Mount Diablo Meridian, established in 1851, is a principal meridian extending north and south from its initial point atop Mount Diablo in California at W 121° 54.845. Established under the U.S. Public Land Survey System , it is used to describe lands in most of northern California and all of Nevada . [ 1 ]

  8. Table Mountain (Butte County, California) - Wikipedia

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    South Table Mountain, at , is mostly privately owned, and contains the "O", which is a big "O" on the side of the plateau, that stands for "Oroville", the city that it towers Dedicated on June 8, 1929 by Oroville High School (OHS) alumni Morrow Steadman, the "big O" has a concrete thickness of four inches, and was measured by its builders to be ...

  9. Model 500 telephone - Wikipedia

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    The design was also produced in Canada by Northern Electric, which eventually became Northern Telecom. Cortelco continues to produce a non-dial version of the model 500, known as the Model 89001047PAK; this phone is available only in bright red color. Stromberg-Carlson (now part of Siemens) also made the phones from the 1950s-1980s. [citation ...