Bell Telephone Systems, 1957
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Eileen Ford, 1948
Ford Models matriarch, Eileen ford, (here when the company was still quite young), handles 7 telephones. Eileen and husband Jerry complete 275 calls a day in a “constant stream of activity which last year grossed them $250.000.”
(Source: 1950sunlimited)
Bell Telephone, 1960s
Bell Telephone System, 1960
Bell System, 1960s
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Bell Telephone System, 1961
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Bell Systems Picture phone, 1964
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“Because your family lives all over the home.”
Mobiltel Automatic by Automatic Electric 1958
In 1956, the world’s first partly automatic car phone system, Mobile System A (MTA), was launched in Sweden. MTA phones were composed of vacuum tubes and relays, and had a weight of 88.2 pounds
Automatic Electric: (AE) telephone equipment supplier for independent telephone companies, comparable to the Bell System’s Western Electric
A Modern Telex c.1970s
illustrator unknown
- A communications system consisting of teletypewriters connected to a telephonic network to send and receive signals.
- A message sent or received by such a system.
North Electric Company 1968
yes…they’re phones.
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