Out of the night came a call for help
Did you ever see this before?
The Bell System's new electronic switching system
Where to, please?
How the "Duke of Des Moines" helped restore service to 10,000 telephone customers
Here are some of the ways we handle your telephone calls today
Service that never sleeps
Neighborizing the farmer
New for you—a more useful telephone number!
We dug and refilled a 4000-mile trench to protect 9300 communications circuits against disaster
What is the Bell System?
Unseen forces behind your telephone
Independent Telephone Company Ads
"Hello central" said goodbye here
Welcomes are warmer when you call ahead
You can telephone all over the world
Answering the nation's call
Busy... behind the the lines
A good buy
Portrait of a city
Never!
We've seen a lot of change over the years
Public phones are found in the likeliest places!
Meet AT&T's newest public phone
Wherever you walk or fly or drive or dock
Telephones are ubiquitous?
Brother to the phones at home
No kidding, operator, my car's full of bees!
There's something new in telephone booths
Like a lighthouse on the highway
This was the first telephone booth
Bird nesting
What's on your mind to be done right now?
Talk about colorful living...get extension telephones in color
Give profits a lift with The Call Director telephone
Tomorrow's telephones? They're being tested today!
You press this little key down… on the Teletypewriter
This machine is talking to a factory in Atlanta
What is TELETYPE?
Speed-up your switch lists with "Teletype"
Lubrication Intervals for TELETYPE 28
What TELETYPE can do for you
Keeping tabs on 9,300 miles of pipeline...
What do these 49 computers have in common?
50 years that changed the picture
Teletype spacesaver printer
Teletype speeds handling of perishables
TELETYPE celebrates 50 years of new ideas!
What's up?
There are 3,000 'bits' of information on this page
This telephone is equipped for expanded direct distance dialing
Help keep our coin telephone booths clean!
Can you afford to make phoney credit card calls?
Amazing what a phone call can do, version 1
Amazing what a phone call can do, version 2
Amazing what a phone call can do, version 3
Congratulations
The Phonebooth - Some thoughts are better said than read, version 1
The Phonebooth - Some thoughts are better said than read, version 2
The unhandyman's toolbox
Lottery, Weather and Time
TV Update and Sports Phone
I'm your branch office
Look for the convenient coinless public telephone
The numbers to call for answers to these important questions
New numbers to call when you need to know
Reach out and touch someone
How to make a phone call without digging for change
AT&T single slot panel coin telephone (2A) announcement
Photo of 2A1
Photo of 2A2
Photo of 2A-type
3-slots
Single slots
Charge-a-call
COCOTs
Instruction Cards
Facts About the Bell System
Earth Station for Communicating with Satellites
Independents
Teletypes
Equipment
Central Offices
Central Office Switching Equipment
Recordings
Intercept
Time
Switchboards
Telephones
Poster Top
1876 Liquid Telephone
1876 Bell's Centennial Model
1877 First Commercial Telephone
1878 Butterstamp
1878 Wall Set
1880 Blake
1882 Magneto Wall Set
1886 Long Distance Transmitter
1892 Desk Set
1897 Desk Set
1900 Common Battery
1907 Magneto Wall Set
1910 Desk Set
1913 Wall Set
1919 Dial Telephone
1928 Desk Set
1930 Desk Set
1937 "300" Type Desk Set
1938 Telephone Key Set
1949 "500" Type Desk Set
1954 "500" Type Color Desk Set
1956 Wall Telephone
1958 Speakerphone Set
1958 Call Director Telephone
1959 Princess Telephone
1960 Home Interphone System
1962 Panel Phone
1964 Touch-Tone Telephone
1965 Trimline
New Look Picturephone
Key Telephone Systems
400-type KTU
401-type KTU
407-type KTU
451-type KTU
Dataphone and Datasets
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Bell System Practice (BSP) Library
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History
Alexander Graham Bell's Patent Number 174,465 (text version, image page 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
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