The first telephone "book" was published by the New Haven District Telephone Company, in Connecticut, in 1878. It was one page long and contained fifty names - and because, in those days, the operator would connect callers, it was a telephone directory that didn't actually list any telephone numbers.
It is estimated the 85% of Americans now own a cell phone.
Before push-button telephones, people used dial telephones. Before dial telephones were invented, operators connected every call.
The telephone has certainly changed our lives, hasn't it?
ReplyDeleteIt certainly has Heather. It is unbelievable that today we can each own and carry around our own personal phone. We've come a long way since Alexander Graham Bell's days ;)
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I remember party lines!
ReplyDeleteAmazing picture...that's the first ever telephone right? this is an awesome post.
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