Harry Truman
Harry Truman
1945
Ericsson 1935 catalog (German)
Ericsson 1935 catalog (German)
1935
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Siemens and Halske 1912 catalog
Siemens and Halske 1912 catalog
1912
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Mohamed M. Atalla
Mohamed M. Atalla
MOSFET co-inventor
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BTMC model 2725 ('Antwerp') phone
BTMC model 2725 ('Antwerp') phone
1936
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Sosthenes Behn
ITT founder
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Elizabeth Taylor promo pic
1954
Harold D. Arnold
Harold D. Arnold
First Bell Labs research director
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Early American Bell Potbelly Candlestick
1892
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American Bell Telephone Annual Report, 1894
American Bell Telephone Annual Report, 1894
1894
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Shirley Ann Jackson
Theoretical physics innovator
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Stromberg-Carlson Two Line Adjustaphone
1903
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Marion Cameron Gray
Marion Cameron Gray
Discovered the Gray graph
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Dawon Kahng
Dawon Kahng
MOSFET co-inventor
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Hipwell Telephone
American Bell Telephone Annual Report, 1897
American Bell Telephone Annual Report, 1897
1897
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Automatic Electric ad
1934
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Phoenix Electric Telephone Co. Potbelly Desk Set
Phoenix Electric Telephone Co. Potbelly Desk Set
1901
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AT&T Annual Report, 1927
AT&T Annual Report, 1927
1927
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Jones 50-Line Switchboard
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Russell Ohl
Russell Ohl
Pioneered P-N junctions for solar cells
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James J. Storrow
James J. Storrow
Attorney who masterminded Bell patent litigation
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AT&T / Bell System ad
1977
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AT&T / Bell System ad
1961
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First New York to Chicago phone call
1892
Western Union Annual Report 1873
Western Union Annual Report 1873
1873
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Kellogg 1943 Wartime Rebuilding Catalog
Kellogg 1943 Wartime Rebuilding Catalog
1943
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Silver Dollar Pay Station
1900
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Max Mathews
Max Mathews
Bell Labs computer music pioneer
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Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone ad
1947
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NE 1914 catalog
NE 1914 catalog
1914
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Girl on phone
Girl on phone
1909
Ericsson wall telephone
Ericsson wall telephone
1890
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Elektrisk Bureau Kristiania wall phone
Elektrisk Bureau Kristiania wall phone
1897
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'Dont blame us, blame the war'
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1942
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Kellogg 1918 Intercoms Catalog
Kellogg 1918 Intercoms Catalog
1918
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Ericsson
L.M. Ericsson ad
1891
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Gray 1935 Pay Station Catalog
Gray 1935 Pay Station Catalog
1935
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Kellogg straight shaft desk set
1899
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Guglielmo Marconi
Guglielmo Marconi
Wireless telegraph (radio) inventor
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Western Electric 20-AL desk set with "Wonderphone" transmitter
Western Electric 20-AL desk set with "Wonderphone" transmitter
1915
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Strowger Automatic: A Sixty Year Report
Strowger Automatic: A Sixty Year Report
1952
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Amos E. Joel Jr.
Amos E. Joel Jr.
Electronic switching and cellular innovator
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Enos M. Barton
Enos M. Barton
Western Electric co-founder
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Taft learning he's been nominated for president
Taft learning he's been nominated for president
1908
American Bell Telephone Annual Report, 1896
American Bell Telephone Annual Report, 1896
1896
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Lee de Forest
Lee de Forest
Vacuum tube inventor
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Ornate Candlestick
Ornate Candlestick
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Hitchcock movie promo pic
1954
Gray Telephone Pay Station Co. founded
Gray Telephone Pay Station Co. founded
1891
"Hello"
"Hello"
Kellogg 9917
Kellogg 9917
1930
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Reach Out
AT&T / Bell System ad
1980
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Telephone System of the British Post Office
1901
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Kellogg 1941 Catalog
Kellogg 1941 Catalog
1941
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Picturephone
Western Electric ad
1970
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Ordinary Bell telephone
Ordinary Bell telephone
1880
Sumter Telephone Mfg. Co. No. 20 "knurled nut" split shaft desk set
Sumter Telephone Mfg. Co. No. 20 "knurled nut" split shaft desk set
1907
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Erna Schneider Hoover
Erna Schneider Hoover
Computerized telephone switching innovator
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Gardiner Greene Hubbard
Gardiner Greene Hubbard
Godfather of the Bell System
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GPO 232 With Cheese Drawer
GPO 232 With Cheese Drawer
1929
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"Eurieult" Type 10 desk telephone
"Eurieult" Type 10 desk telephone
1901
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William G. McGowan
William G. McGowan
MCI Founder
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WE 354
WE 354
1937
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Bell System
AT&T / Bell System ad
1948
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National Telephone
National Telephone Mfg. Co. ad
1895
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Harvest Gold Contempra
1967
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'Making dials'
Western Electric ad
1953
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Raymond W. Ketchledge
Raymond W. Ketchledge
Telephone switching innovator
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This is Automatic Electric
This is Automatic Electric
1955
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Gray Pay Station 1912 Catalog
Gray Pay Station 1912 Catalog
1912
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AT&T Annual Report, 1902
1902
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Emma Nutt
Emma Nutt
First female telephone operator
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Brian Kernighan
Brian Kernighan
Unix and C co-developer
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WE 201 Spacesaver
WE 201 Spacesaver
1930
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Manhattan Two-Box
Manhattan Two-Box
1897
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Bishnu S. Atal
Bishnu S. Atal
Speech coding innovator
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Contempra Brochure
Contempra Brochure
1972
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Gray Three-Slot Payhone
Gray Three-Slot Payhone
1920
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Masterphone 1000 Brochure
Masterphone 1000 Brochure
1948
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Contempra
Northern Electric/Telecom ad
1971
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Anne Margaret in Bye Bye Birdie
Anne Margaret in Bye Bye Birdie
1963
Ericsson potbelly desk set
Ericsson potbelly desk set
1898
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Strowger 1931 Dial Telephones catalog
Strowger 1931 Dial Telephones catalog
1931
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Kellogg 1903 Magneto Telephones Catalog
Kellogg 1903 Magneto Telephones Catalog
1903
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Natalie Wood on the phone
Natalie Wood on the phone
1960
Help For Handicapped People
Help For Handicapped People
1981
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Williams-Abbott Electric Company short straight shaft desk set
Williams-Abbott Electric Company short straight shaft desk set
1912
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Hedy Lamarr on the phone
Hedy Lamarr on the phone
Otto Julius Zobel
Otto Julius Zobel
Filter design and theory pioneer
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Model 302s in color!
AT&T / Bell System ad
1949
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Rudolf Kompfner
Rudolf Kompfner
Wave transmission and amplification innovator
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Ericsson 1889 catalog
Ericsson 1889 catalog
1889
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Ericsson export model telephone
Ericsson export model telephone
1898
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Keith Haring Pop Shop Red Siemens 611
Keith Haring Pop Shop Red Siemens 611
1988
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Bob Woodward at the Washington Post
Bob Woodward at the Washington Post
1974
AT&T Annual Report 1975
AT&T Annual Report 1975
1975
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Enorme Phone
Enorme Phone
1986
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William O. Baker
William O. Baker
Bell Labs research director and president
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Antonio Meucci
Antonio Meucci
Early telephone innovator
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Sterling Electric Co. 1907 straight shaft with unique base
Sterling Electric Co. 1907 straight shaft with unique base
1907
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'The multiplication of you'
AT&T / Bell System ad
1933
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Hendrik Wade Bode
Hendrik Wade Bode
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Swedish-American Telephone Co. model #70 desk set
Swedish-American Telephone Co. model #70 desk set
1900
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Automatic Electric 1940 catalog
Automatic Electric 1940 catalog
1940
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Early Prototype Uniphone Wall Phone
Early Prototype Uniphone Wall Phone
1935
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Ericsson 1935 Mine Telephones catalog
Ericsson 1935 Mine Telephones catalog
1935
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Fifty years of Fuld/TN products
Fifty years of Fuld/TN products
1949
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Garfield Phone
Garfield Phone
1985
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Louis E. Brus
Louis E. Brus
Quantum dots co-discoverer
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Western Electric
Western Electric ad
1915
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Amos Dolbear
Amos Dolbear
'Talking telegraph' developer
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Sallie Pero Mead
Sallie Pero Mead
Mathematician and wireless innovator
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Victor Telephone
WESCO Supply Co. desk set
WESCO Supply Co. desk set
1905
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Bettie Page
Bettie Page
1954
Julius Andrae
Julius Andrae
Andrae Telephone founder
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Audrey Hepburn
Audrey Hepburn
1953
Paulette Goddard and Ray Milland movie promo photo
Paulette Goddard and Ray Milland movie promo photo
1942
Diavox Operator Set
Diavox Operator Set
1977
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Lady Gaga telephone purse
Lady Gaga telephone purse
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'War still needs the wires'
AT&T / Bell System ad
1944
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Williams-Abbott Electric Company fat tapered shaft desk set
Williams-Abbott Electric Company fat tapered shaft desk set
1898
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Fred Waldhauer
Fred Waldhauer
Audio engineering innovator
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Sergei Alexander Schelkunoff
Sergei Alexander Schelkunoff
Waveguide propagation researcher
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Osamu Fujimura
Osamu Fujimura
Speech science pioneer
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Early Princess
AT&T / Bell System ad
1959
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George Coy / Connecticut District Tel.
Bell Telephone ad
1877
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Andrae c1910 Catalog
Andrae c1910 Catalog
1910
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Thomas B. Doolittle
Thomas B. Doolittle
Telephone and copper wire innovator
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JFK's Palm Springs phone
JFK's Palm Springs phone
1962
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Russell Tomlinson Elect.
Vint Cerf
Vint Cerf
TCP/IP co-developer, 'father of the Internet'
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Kellogg receiver ad
Kellogg Switchboard and Supply ad
1902
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Rural Telephone Lines And How To Build Them
Rural Telephone Lines And How To Build Them
1900
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Get Plugged In
Get Plugged In
1982
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Working on a rush job.
AT&T / Bell System ad
1946
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Chicago Telephone c1904 Catalog
Chicago Telephone c1904 Catalog
1904
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Lady Bird Johnson makes first Picturephone call
Lady Bird Johnson makes first Picturephone call
1965
Rope Shaft Candlestick
Rope Shaft Candlestick
1900
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Televerket Ouno Phone
Televerket Ouno Phone
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Werner von Siemens
Werner von Siemens
Siemens founder
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The Idea Factory
The Idea Factory
2012
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William A. Massey
William A. Massey
Queueing theory expert
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Swedish-American ad
1903
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John Bardeen
John Bardeen
Transistor co-inventor
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Leich Telephones
Leich ad
1922
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Schrack Austrian TAP 80K Phone
Schrack Austrian TAP 80K Phone
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Mihajlo Pupin
Mihajlo Pupin
Loading coil inventor
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Orange Krone Phone
Orange Krone Phone
1973
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Martin Cooper
Martin Cooper
Cellular telephony inventor
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Ericofon
L.M. Ericsson ad
1965
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AGB long distance membrane receiver
AGB long distance membrane receiver
1876
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J. P. Morgan
J. P. Morgan
AT&T financier and banker
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Strowger
Automatic Electric ad
1895
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Early French Phone La Pile Hydra
Early French Phone La Pile Hydra
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North 1915 Magneto Telephones Bulletin
North 1915 Magneto Telephones Bulletin
1915
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Joybubbles
Joybubbles
Early phone phreak
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'Telephone worldwide'
AT&T / Bell System ad
1957
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Grillo phone
Siemens ad
1968
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Irving Penn photo
Irving Penn photo
1949
Farr Telephone Magazine
Farr Telephone ad
1905
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William Orton
William Orton
Western Union President
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Augusta Electric Fat Tapered Shaft Desk Set
Augusta Electric Fat Tapered Shaft Desk Set
1899
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Mervin Kelly
Mervin Kelly
Vacuum tube innovator and solid-state team builder
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Calling on German payphone
Calling on German payphone
1957
DeVeau 6 button desk set
DeVeau 6 button desk set
1900
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GPO Office Telephone
GPO Office Telephone
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Kellogg Wall Magneto Switchboard
Kellogg Wall Magneto Switchboard
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Connecticut Telephone 1915 Intercoms catalog
Connecticut Telephone 1915 Intercoms catalog
1915
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Bell Labs prototype wall phone
Bell Labs prototype wall phone
1940
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John R. Pierce
John R. Pierce
Pulse code modulation co-developer
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AE 1958 Mechanical Principles of Telephony
AE 1958 Mechanical Principles of Telephony
1958
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WE 50AL Candlestick
WE 50AL Candlestick
1919
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Dutch PTT Elite Phone
Dutch PTT Elite Phone
1990
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George Willard Coy
George Willard Coy
Developed first local exchange
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Krone Compact 1000
Krone ad
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AE 1A color brochure
Automatic Electric ad
1929
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Bell Gallows Frame Phone Transmitter
Bell Gallows Frame Phone Transmitter
1875
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Walter Brattain
Walter Brattain
Transistor co-inventor
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AT&T Annual Report, 1983
AT&T Annual Report, 1983
1983
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Evelyn Hu
Evelyn Hu
Nanotechnology innovator
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Kid on phone
Kid on phone
1907
Kellogg 1915 Switchboards catalog
Kellogg 1915 Switchboards catalog
1915
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GPO phone
General Post Office/BT ad
1934
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James Stewart and Ned Sparks
James Stewart and Ned Sparks
1947
Ericsson 1913 switchboards catalog
Ericsson 1913 switchboards catalog
1913
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British Dictograph
Dictograph Products ad
1936
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Happy Days three-slot payphone
Happy Days three-slot payphone
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Suffragist Genevieve Clark Thomson
Suffragist Genevieve Clark Thomson
1915
Sunburst Candlestick
Sunburst Candlestick
1906
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'Convenience in color'
AT&T / Bell System ad
1957
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American Electric potbelly desk set
American Electric potbelly desk set
1900
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Samson Telephone Co. 4 button desk set
Samson Telephone Co. 4 button desk set
1910
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Elisha Gray
Elisha Gray
Inventor and Bell competitor
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AT&T Annual Report, 1942
AT&T Annual Report, 1942
1942
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Ericofon
L.M. Ericsson ad
1959
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James West
James West
Electret microphone co-inventor
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William Hathaway Forbes
William Hathaway Forbes
Bell early investor and President
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DeVeau “Stanley Patterson” Straight Shaft Desk Set
DeVeau “Stanley Patterson” Straight Shaft Desk Set
1910
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Lars Magnus Ericsson
Lars Magnus Ericsson
Swedish telephone entrepreneur and inventor
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Touch tone
Western Electric ad
1965
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Dennis Ritchie
Dennis Ritchie
UNIX co-creator
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First mobile telephone service introduced, in St. Louis
First mobile telephone service introduced, in St. Louis
1946
Thomas S. Sanders
Thomas S. Sanders
First investor in Bell Telephone
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Alec Reeves
Alec Reeves
Pulse code modulation co-developer
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French engraving with early Bell phones
French engraving with early Bell phones
1880
Talking Points
Talking Points
1970
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Clark Automatic
Clark Automatic Telephone ad
1902
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Strowger 'Tele-Chec' seating control phone system
Strowger 'Tele-Chec' seating control phone system
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Elizabeth A. Wood
Elizabeth A. Wood
Crystallographic research leader
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AT&T Annual Report, 1944
AT&T Annual Report, 1944
1944
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AE 50 "Jukebox"
AE 50 "Jukebox"
1937
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England catches up with postwar telephone demand
Gray Paystation 1943 catalog
Gray Paystation 1943 catalog
1943
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Ericsson 1976 digital switching brochure
Ericsson 1976 digital switching brochure
1976
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Telephone truck
Western Electric ad
1952
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Viaduct Telephone
Viaduct Manufacturing ad
1895
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NEC Company History
NEC Company History
1999
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Bell Dec 1878 battery telephone announcement
Bell Dec 1878 battery telephone announcement
1878
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Homer Dudley
Homer Dudley
Speech synthesis inventor
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Ericsson Model 350 Wall Telephone
Ericsson Model 350 Wall Telephone
1895
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AT&T Annual Report, 1907
AT&T Annual Report, 1907
1907
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Pacific Telephone Exchange Plant Inventory, Volume XV
Pacific Telephone Exchange Plant Inventory, Volume XV
1912
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Ring Ring album cover
Ring Ring album cover
1973
Electrical Goods Manufacturing 8 button desk set
Electrical Goods Manufacturing 8 button desk set
1905
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Calvin Souther Fuller
Calvin Souther Fuller
Solar cell co-inventor
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Almon Strowger
Almon Strowger
Automatic switching and dialing inventor
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Touch Tone Princess (And Color Variants)
Touch Tone Princess (And Color Variants)
1963
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American Bell Long Distance Transmitter
American Bell Long Distance Transmitter
1887
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Allen-Hussey
Allen-Hussey Co. ad
1898
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Bavarian Skeleton Telephone
Bavarian Skeleton Telephone
1903
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Carl Bernstein at the Washington Post
Carl Bernstein at the Washington Post
1973
You And Your Telephone
You And Your Telephone
1959
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1881 ad in Boston phone directory
Charles Williams Jr. Shop ad
1881
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AT&T Annual Report, 1934
AT&T Annual Report, 1934
1934
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Robert W. Lucky
Robert W. Lucky
Invented the adaptive equalizer
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AT&T Annual Report 1967
AT&T Annual Report 1967
1967
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Stan Laurel promo pic
Stan Laurel promo pic
1928
Wilson after hearing he'd been nominated for president
Wilson after hearing he'd been nominated for president
1912
Western Electric 1912 Bulletin
Western Electric 1912 Bulletin
1912
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Julius Andrae & Sons Co. No. 7 desk stand
Julius Andrae & Sons Co. No. 7 desk stand
1903
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Wilhelm Telephone Mfg. Candlestick
Wilhelm Telephone Mfg. Candlestick
1898
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Gerald Pearson
Gerald Pearson
Solar cell co-inventor
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John Draper
John Draper
Famous phone phreak (aka 'Captain Crunch')
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Jane Birkin
Jane Birkin
1974
Autovon TA-1042/U secure voice terminal
Autovon TA-1042/U secure voice terminal
1992
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WE 464 Multiline Phone
WE 464 Multiline Phone
1954
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Minicom V TTY machine
Minicom V TTY machine
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Ralph Hartley
Ralph Hartley
Information theory innovator
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Compagnia Generale Di Elettricita fluted shaft desk set
Compagnia Generale Di Elettricita fluted shaft desk set
1921
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John J. Carty
John J. Carty
AT&T Chief Engineer
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Green AE40 With Gold Trim
Green AE40 With Gold Trim
1939
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Alexander Graham Bell
Alexander Graham Bell
Telephone inventor and patent holder
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Valdemar Poulsen
Valdemar Poulsen
Developed magnetic recording and radio transmission technology
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Chicago Telephone Supply Company "oil can" desk set
Chicago Telephone Supply Company "oil can" desk set
1910
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How to Marry a Millionaire
How to Marry a Millionaire
1953
Phonemate Remote 930 ad
Phonemate Inc. ad
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New colors
Western Electric ad
1956
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Small French telephone exchange
Small French telephone exchange
1926
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Telephone vs. Airplane
Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone ad
1930
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Post and Co. Pony Set
Post and Co. Pony Set
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Edison televoice writer
Thomas A. Edison, Inc. ad
1951
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AT&T Annual Report, 1946
AT&T Annual Report, 1946
1946
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Telcer "BoBo" phone
Telcer "BoBo" phone
1969
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Craig McCaw
Craig McCaw
Cellular telephone entrepreneur
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Buy a phone call
AT&T / Bell System ad
1935
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Trimline
AT&T / Bell System ad
1976
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Emile Berliner
Emile Berliner
Telephone transmitter innovator
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Viaduct Ad December
Viaduct Manufacturing ad
1898
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Western Electric nickel plated model No. 20-MC
Western Electric nickel plated model No. 20-MC
1904
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San Francisco Potbelly Candlestick
San Francisco Potbelly Candlestick
1897
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AE 1A Repro - Red
AE 1A Repro - Red
1926
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Common short desk set
Common short desk set
1910
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Churchill uses wireless phone from a tank turret
Churchill uses wireless phone from a tank turret
1941
Gray Model 14 Portable
Gray Model 14 Portable
1911
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Kellogg 1923 Catalog
Kellogg 1923 Catalog
1923
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Arno Allan Penzias
Arno Allan Penzias
Cosmic radiation co-discoverer
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AT&T Annual Report, 1905
AT&T Annual Report, 1905
1905
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Schmoo phone
Western Electric ad
1961
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Sharing Your Telephone
Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone ad
1917
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Bill Blass in a phone booth
Bill Blass in a phone booth
1971
Claude Shannon
Claude Shannon
Father of information theory
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Telephone Switchboard, c. 1900
Telephone Switchboard, c. 1900
1900
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Contempra
Northern Electric/Telecom ad
1969
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Telephone Buildings Of The Bell System
Telephone Buildings Of The Bell System
1930
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North Electric Co. fat shaft desk set
North Electric Co. fat shaft desk set
1910
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Eureka Electric Co. potbelly desk set
Eureka Electric Co. potbelly desk set
1899
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Western Electric No. 30A 100 station peg dialer
Western Electric No. 30A 100 station peg dialer
1904
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Charles H. Townes
Charles H. Townes
Microwave spectroscopy and MASER pioneer
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Brigitte Bardot
Brigitte Bardot
1970