What are your favorite telephones (landline corded) and what is your favorite system for connecting multiple lines?
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Asked by: Computers 4 life
I have always been partial to Nortel phones. For connecting multiple lines, are you referring to a telephone system such as an electronic key or PBX phone system or just the wiring and connection hardware to connect the lines? More
The telephones that hook the "inmate" on one side of the glass then the other one goes to the visitor.More
Asked by: Larkyn
Each booth has one receiver for the inmate, one for the visitor. They are directly connected to one another, and noone else (unless you count the system, which usually monitors all).... More
I have almost no experience with business/office telephones. How and where can I go about finding a course that will help me learn how to operate business phones in an office environment. (With real telephones). The community college course I tried was basically only telephone etiquette. It was on a CD Rom and did not involve the use of an actual business/office telephone. Please help.More
Asked by: LBgirl
Intern with a company that has a system and get time on it. The only way to get good at phones is to do it alot. Besides, every company seems to have a different phone system so they are all things you need to learn by doing. There are skills that go from one to the other though. More
If you can give me a "time-line" of telephones.More
Asked by: ♥Soccer Freak Forever♥
True! Strowger was before Ma Bell, Western Electric
Strowger switch
Convinced that it should be subscribers, rather than the operator, who chose who was called - anecdotally, Strowger's undertaking business was losing clients to a competitor whose telephone-operator wife was intercepting and redirecting everyone who called Strowger - he first conceived his invention in 1888, and patented the automatic telephone exchange in 1891. It is reported that he initially constructed a model of his invention from a round collar box and some straight pins.
Here is a W E link and some others as well.
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The recent history of telephones of course includes telecommunications generally.
I am particularly, but not only, interested to know about the development of telephones between 1918 and 1939.More
Asked by: Philosophical Fred
Baldwin, FGC, The History of the Telephone in the United Kingdom, London, Chapman & Hall, 1938
Bray, John, The Communications Miracle (Telecommunications Pioneers from Morse to the Information Superhighway), Plenum Press, 1995
BT, A Short History of BT's World, British Telecommunications plc, 1998
Marvin, C, When Old Technologies were New (Thinking about Electric Communications in the Late Nineteenth Century), Oxford University Press, 1988
Perry, CR, The Victorian Post Office (The Growth of a Bureaucracy), Boydell, The Royal Historical Society, 1992
Pitt, Douglas C, The Telecommunications Function in the British Post Office - A Case Study of Bureaucratic Adaption, Saxon House, 1980
Robinson, H, Britain's Post Office (A History of Development from the Beginnings to the Present Day), Oxford University Press, 1953
Solymar, Laszlo, Getting the Message (A History of Communications), Oxford University Press, 1999
Standage, Tom, The Victorian Internet (The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's Online Pioneers), Weidenfield & Nicolson, 1998 More
