 Discover 130 years of telephone history at one of our country’s finest exhibits of antique telephones and equipment.
This educational resource starts with a look at Alexander Graham Bell's invention and travels through the era of crank phones, local operators, party lines, automatic dialing systems, and wireless technology.
Visitors will take a walk down memory lane and experience a working demonstration of an operator switchboard, payphone and automatic dialing system.
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Did you know...
Telephone operators used to be young men...
But they were prone to prank calling and chatting up female callers... "In the first exchanges, boys were generally engaged as operators, but due to their inquisitive spirits, mischievous behaviour etc they did not give their best attention and girls began to replace boys in this role.."
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