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  2. Rotary dial - Wikipedia

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    A 1931 Ericsson rotary dial telephone without lettering on the finger wheel, typical of European telephones. The 0 precedes 1. A rotary dial typically features a circular construction. The shaft that actuates the mechanical switching mechanism is driven by the finger wheel, a disk that has ten finger holes aligned close to the circumference.

  3. 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 ...

  4. Strowger switch - Wikipedia

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    The telegraph keys or telephone dial creates trains of on-off current pulses corresponding to the digits 1–9, and 0 (which sends 10 pulses). This equipment originally consisted of two telegraph keys engaged by knife switches, and evolved into the rotary dial telephone. The central office switching equipment has a two-motion stepping switch. A ...

  5. 1A2 Key Telephone System - Wikipedia

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    Telephone sets could be either rotary dial models, or be equipped with Touch-Tone keypads. A power supply was either mounted within the panel or separately nearby. The power supply provided 24 VDC for relay operation, filtered 24 VDC for talk battery (intercom and direct-line services), 10 VAC for lamps, 18 VAC for buzzers, and 90–110 VAC at ...

  6. 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 ...

  7. 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.

  8. Rotary system - Wikipedia

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    The rotary machine switching system, or most commonly known as the rotary system, was a type of automatic telephone exchange manufactured and used primarily in Europe from the 1910s. The system was developed and tested by AT&T's American engineering division, Western Electric , in the United States, at the same time when Western Electric was ...

  9. Portal:Telephones - Wikipedia

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    A German rotary dial telephone, the W48 (from History of the telephone) Image 53 Personal Handy-phone System mobiles and modems, 1997–2003 (from Mobile phone ) Image 54 A sign along Bellaire Boulevard in Southside Place, Texas ( Greater Houston ) states that using mobile phones while driving is prohibited from 7:30 am to 9:00 am and from 2:00 ...