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  2. AT&T Merlin - Wikipedia

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    A door phone controller (DAC-1Z) can be connected to your Merlin Plus system to allow employees to answer calls made from a business entrance. It is connected directly to a CO line port on the Merlin Plus control unit. Callers using the door phone can press a button at the building entrance to ring a telephone in your Merlin Plus system.

  3. 1A2 Key Telephone System - Wikipedia

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    A user could select any available telephone line by pressing the appropriate pickup key and taking the handset off-hook. While on a telephone call, a user could place the call on hold by pressing the hold button, which also released the depressed line button mechanically, enabling the user to select another line for placing a call.

  4. 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 ...

  5. Telephone magneto - Wikipedia

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    A telephone magneto is a hand-cranked electrical generator that uses permanent magnets to produce alternating current from a rotating armature. In early telegraphy , magnetos were used to power instruments, while in telephony they were used to generate electrical current to drive electromechanical ringers in telephone sets and activate signals ...

  6. Trimline telephone - Wikipedia

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    A 220 Trimline rotary desk phone, showing the innovative rotary dial with moving fingerstop Early Touch Tone Trimline with round buttons and clear plastic backplate and round non-modular handset cord Redesigned touch-tone desk model Trimline, manufactured on January 9, 1985 The Trimline 2225, one of the last phones made at the Indianapolis Works in 1986 Early foreign made Trimline, December ...

  7. Ringing (telephony) - Wikipedia

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    Ringing is a telecommunication signal that causes a bell or other device to alert a telephone subscriber to an incoming telephone call.Historically, this entailed sending a high-voltage alternating current over the telephone line to a customer station which contained an electromagnetic bell.

  8. Viking Direct - Wikipedia

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    Viking is an omni-channel [clarification needed] office supplies company selling a broad range of office supplies varying from stationery to furniture, breakroom and catering essentials. It has its European headquarters in Venlo, Netherlands, along with offices in Leicester, United Kingdom, and a service center in Cluj, Romania serving all ...

  9. Mobile radio telephone - Wikipedia

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    The "Altai" mobile telephone system launched into experimental service in 1963 in the Soviet Union, becoming fully operational in 1965; the first automatic mobile phone system in Europe. Televerket opened its first manual mobile telephone system in Norway in 1966. Norway was later the first country in Europe to get an automatic mobile telephone ...