Collaborate Disseminate
Such has been the success of the mobile phone that in many places they have removed the need for wired connections, for example where this is being written the old …read more Continue reading A Complete Exchange From Scratch For Your Rotary Dial Phones
This repair/tutorial video by the telephone Connections Museum of Seattle features an amazing piece of electro-mechanical technology from the 1950s — the 5XB trouble recorder. Museum volunteer Sarah the “Switch Witch” has …read more Continue reading Stack Trace from the 1950s Punches Again
Analog phones may be nearly obsolete today, but having served humanity for well over a century they’re quite likely to pop up in drawers or attics now and then. If …read more Continue reading How to Build Your Own Analog Phone Network
While rarely seen by users, the technology behind telephone exchanges is actually quite interesting. In the first hundred or so years of their existence they evolved from manually-operated switchboards to …read more Continue reading The Simplest Electro-Mechanical Telephone Exchange That Actually Works
I can’t help but wonder how long it will be before the movie title “Dial M for Murder” becomes mysterious to most of the population. After all, who has seen a dial phone lately? Sure, there are a few retro phones, but they aren’t in widespread use. It may not be murder, but it turns out that the dial telephone has its roots in death — or at least the business of death. But to understand why that’s true, you need to go back to the early days of the telephone.
Did you ever make a tin can phone with …read more
