The Telegraph Pole Appreciation Society is one of the few organizations that overtly, consistently appreciates what are now more commonly known as telephone poles. They have a web site. This photo of a pole that the society has named the “Charlie Warmington Memorial Pole” appears on that site:
Here’s how the 99% invisible blog begins explaining telephone switching systems: If you are an undertaker in 1878 Kansas City, and you learn that your competitor’s wife works as a telephone switchboard operator and has been diverting business calls meant for you to her husband, you have three potential courses of action: (1) Contact the […]
There is a way you can telephone from every room in a residence, explains the May 1905 issue of Popular Mechanics magazine: https://books.google.com/books?id=oN8DAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA491&pg=PA502#v=onepage&q&f=false
“Is it dangerous to make a landline phone call during a thunderstorm?” It can be. Background is provided by Emeritus Professor Mat Darveniza, AO, FTSE, BE, PhD, DEng, Hon DSc (Eng), FIEAust (Hon), FIEEE (life), FTSE, LIVA, from the University of Queensland Australia – who is a leading authority on lightning strikes. In Australia alone […]