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- Опубліковано 14 гру 2017
- Many of you are reading this description and watching this video on your phone. This powerful piece of communication machinery has changed a lot since it made only voice calls! Volunteer Bob Wilson shares with us his memories of the antique wall mounted, hand-cranked telephone.
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It looks like that phone system worked for its time and place. Id love to check out this museum next time I'm in Ontario.
Brian Arbenz: Why do elderly people have a wider mouth, and they don't close their mouth every time they done speaking and you even see them liking their lips like what a dog does.
I've heard that Bryant Pond, Maine was the last town in the United States to use hand-cranked telephones. They discontinued those phones as recent as October 13, 1983.
I appreciate you taking the time to share this information.
Very enlighting , had never heard of the shares before.
Hi! I’m 24 and interested in learning more about early long distance telephones! The specifics of whether or not you could call a residence, if you were charged for the call, what information you need to have for the operator. I can’t really find this online and I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions for someone who was interested
3 years late, but I have some context on this.
A direct operator phone like this would go to the local CO (central office) for the area. The first 3 digits of a phone number used to be the COC (central office code), that would identify the CO.
But before COCs, a "phone number" used to be a neighborhood and ringer number. Like "Murray Hill 738", that would allow an operator to do a "backbone" connection to the CO that had a direct connection to ringer 738.
Operators had procedures to connect calls between COs on the backbones. Essentially they would call each other and negotiate the connection. These procedures were what would later be automated into the switching system.
A long distance phone call would work the same way, but just with multiple hops on the backbones between COs. Sometimes this was possible, but other times a connection between two COs couldn't be made because all backbone lines were occupied by other callers.
This negotiation could be retried through another CO multiple times until a connection could be made (if the call was very important) otherwise the operator would simply inform the caller it was unavailable. This became a network of interconnected COs, that would later inspire internet protocols like BGP.
So for example, a caller in LA would connect to their local operator and ask for "Murray Hill 738 in New York". The local operator would ring a backbone in LA and request a line to New York the backbone would connect the local operator to the new York backbone and she would request Murray Hill 738, then the new York backbone would negotiate to the local CO in Murray Hill.
For more obscure rural long distance calls, the caller might need to explain all of the hops to the operator. But most cities were 1 or 2 hops away from eachother.
As for how the cost was negotiated, each hop would charge a connection rate for occupying a line and it would add up quickly.
Hope that helps!
I have one western, electric so it brought me to this page to learn more
Wonderful!
Great video
Haha! It looks like a face! Or more like gas mask shape! 😂😂
Interested in the mans story of use if multiple peoplewere on what we used to call 'a party line'. ? Meaning if you picked up you could hear a conversation in progress and were expected to hang up and try later. I remember that from the mod 1970s... Out on the farm.
Imagine if this was in splatoon octo expansion this would be more very creepy
I just woke up with a dream
To make a small wooden hand held box of palm size fitted with a tape speaker working as a mike and a speaker (dual function) and a small 1.5 v battery fitted in it
And
Same other side
Connected with a small thin 15meters wire
And a small motor as a magneto for ringing generator
Can
Anyone help me out for this project by making me a drawing of the circuit
Just for children learning
Great information. I have an antique phone just like the one you were showing, but mine is missing the receiver hook. Would you have any idea where I could locate a replacement hook as I really want to restore this beautiful antique?
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He cranked his crank.
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hmmm, long and a short, it had some kind of crude morse code like switching system at whatever passed for the local central office. I wonder if the operator had her phone in her house and just kind of was there or not on a whim but mostly there, rather than going to work all day and home at night. If they were ther 24/7 then it'd have to be in their home. We had one of these phones but I think it burned up in a fire.
I have one how much are they worth?
It’s on pawn stars for $600
Where i can buy that old telephone?
Is it from 20 city
I don't understand about local ring. How could I do two short-one long....
The caller would crank the handle on the side a long or short amount of time.
how much is this phone worth
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Freddy kreuger stabs you with his bloody knives
am i the only person who is absolutely petrified of this thing?
Yes
Blood bath
I have the same phone for sale
Me
😂
good
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@@thelionofjudah5318 I didnt know I said good on this video
@@pissbaby3329 haha lol