num employees products Telephone Local Telephone Service revenue parent Bell Telephone Company American Bell 1883 1899 br American Telephone & Telegraph AT&T 1899 1983 bR Bell Atlantic Verizon 1984 ... DC The Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company , usually known as C&P Telephone , was a d b a name ... The Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company DC The Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company of Maryland The Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company of Virginia One company is owned by Frontier Communications Frontier West Virginia The Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company of West Virginia History The Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company DC The Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company was founded in June 1883. C&P Telephone Co. provided telephone service to Washington, D.C. In July 1969, Richard Nixon President Richard Nixon s telephonecall to astronauts on the moon originated from C&P Telephone Co. equipment. The Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company of Maryland Image C&PMD.jpg thumb right C&P Tel. Co. of Maryland logo, 1964 1969 The C&P Telephone Company of Maryland was founded in 1884 as The Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company of Baltimore City . ref http www22.verizon.com ... and Potomac Telephone Company of Maryland on January 3, 1956, and the corporate name at this point changed to C&P Telephone of Maryland. ref http sdatcert3.resiusa.org UCC Charter DisplayEntity ... jobs in January 1943 due to labor shortages during World War II, but telephone operator positions remained ... and Potomac Telephone Company of Virginia Image C&PVA.jpg thumb right C&P Tel. Co. of Virginia logo, 1964 1969 The Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company of Virginia was founded in 1903. In 2010 ... shortened to C&P Telephone on marketing materials, bills, vehicles, etc. Image C&P Telephone.png thumb C&P Telephone logo, 1984 1994 In 1984, when the Bell System was divided into the Regional Bell operating company Regional Bell Operating Companies , or Baby Bells , the C&P Telephone companies became ... more details
No. 186,787 is granted for an electromagnetic telephone using permanent magnets, iron diaphragms, and a call ... 1915 First U.S. coast to coast long distance telephonecall, ceremoniously inaugurated by A.G. Bell ... speak into and then listen through the same hole. File Telephone Centennial Issue 1976 13c.jpg thumb right 240px center Bell s Prototype Telephone center center Centennial Issue of 1976 center This history of the telephone timeline of the telephone chronicles the development of the telephone electrical telephone , and includes a brief review of its earlier predecessors. Telephone prehistory ... s telephone A different device, the tin can telephone , or lover s phone , has also been known for centuries ... The telephone emerged from the creation of, and successive improvements to the electrical telegraph ... to the invention of the telephone, or the speaking telegraph . Invention of the telephone main Invention of the telephone Credit for the invention of the electric telephone is frequently disputed ... credited with the telephone s invention. The early history of the telephone became and still remains ... and Edison patents, however, were commercially decisive, because they dominated telephone technology ... Meucci , 1854, constructed telephone like devices. Image JPReis.jpg Johann Philipp Reis , 1860, constructed ... Bell.jpg Alexander Graham Bell was awarded the first U.S. patent for the invention of the telephone in 1876. Image Portrait elisha gray.jpg Elisha Gray , 1876, designed a telephone using a water microphone in Highland Park, Illinois. Image Tivadar Puskas.jpg Tivadar Pusk s invented the telephone exchange telephone switchboard exchange in 1876. Image Thomas Edison, 1878.jpg Thomas Edison , invented the carbon microphone which produced a strong telephone signal. gallery center Alexander Graham Bell has most often been credited as the inventor of the first practical telephone. Additionally, the Italian ... for his contributory work on the telephone. In Germany, Johann Philipp Reis is seen as a leading ... more details
, financial, Emergency telephone number emergency telephonecall centres e.g. 9 1 1 or 1 1 2 , and others ... communicate via telephone anyway, such as interactions between call centers and consumers, calls between members of the public and emergency telephonecall centres, etc... Telephone interpreting can be used ...See also Language interpretation Video Relay Service Navbox translation Telephone interpreting is a service that connects human interpret ers via telephone to individuals who wish to speak to each other but do not share a common language. The telephone interpreter converts the spoken language from one ... the telephone most often takes place in Interpret Consecutive interpreting consecutive mode , which ... into the other language. Telephone interpreting is one Modality Linguistics modality or delivery ... . Historical timeline 1973 Australia introduces telephone interpretation as a fee free service to respond to its growing immigrant communities. ref cite web last Mikkelson first Holly title Telephone ... in the United States. ref cite book last Kelly first Nataly title Telephone Interpreting A Comprehensive ... 302 ref li 1981 1990 Telephone interpretation enters major U.S. industries including financial services ... Nataly title Telephone Interpreting A Comprehensive Guide to the Profession year 2008 publisher Trafford Publishing isbn 1425185010 ref 1990 s The demand for telephone interpretation grows significantly contributing factors include decreased prices in long distance calls, Toll free telephone number ... Kevmark, later known as CyraCom International, patents a multiple handset phone adapted for telephone ..., 4, 2011 ref 2000 s Telephone interpretation becomes more sophisticated quality of interpretation ... 2005 The U.S. telephone interpreting market is estimated at approximately 200 million. ref name Kelly 2008 Providers There are many types of organizations that provide telephone interpreting services ... within organizations. For example, the government of Australia operates a telephone interpreting ... more details
thumb left 300px An AA emergency call box See also Callbox Police box Emergency telephone number ...Refimprove date July 2011 Image Freeway callbox.jpg left thumb 200px Call box on U.S. Interstate Highway Image PublicInformationSymbol EmergencyTelephone.svg 50px right Image Trefor emrgency phone.jpg right thumb 200px Emergency telephone on a beach at Trefor in North Wales Image Emergency Telephone Used on College Campus.jpg thumb Emergency telephone used on Monroe Community College campus An emergency telephone is a telephone phone specifically provided for making calls to emergency services and is most often found in a place of special danger or where it is likely that there will only be a need to make emergency calls. Emergency telephones are commonly found alongside major roads and on Campus university university campuses throughout the world. In the United Kingdom, orange SOS call box es are spaced at convert 1 mi km intervals on all motorways as well as some major A roads, with roadside markers indicating the nearer phone. Emergency telephones were installed at convert .25 mi m intervals on all limited access highways Freeway s throughout Southern California in the United States as far back as the 1970s. On Italian Autostrada Autostrade Motorways , SOS emergency phones, generally ... telephone on a college campus In some countries, they are also found in places where people may feel ... County Register, 500 freeway call boxes set to make an exit May 17, 2005 ref However, they are likely ... does not know by having the caller read the short identifier from the placard over the telephone. Some phones are equipped with the equivalent of caller id and the agent receiving the call can identify the location even if the caller cannot. In most U.S. states with roadside call boxes, the call box placard has the route s milepost reading. In California, call boxes are identified by their mileage ... Borne d appel nl Praatpaal ja simple Emergency telephone sv N dtelefon ... more details
in settings as diverse as emergency rooms, large call centers and hospices. Telephone triage nurses ... called telephone triage. Telenurses practice in a range of settings, from large medical call centers, physician s offices, clinics, hospices, college health centers, disease management call centers, poison centers, and emergency departments. Research on Telenurse Decision making Telephone triage the safe ...Refimprove date May 2009 Telephone triage is defined as the management of patient health concerns and symptoms via a telephone interaction telecommunications by advice nurses . It is thus an aspect of telenursing ... form of technology telephone lines . Telehealth is defined as the delivery of health related services ... variations of healthcare services using telecommunications. Uses of Telephone Triage Triage means a sorting out. Telephone triage nurses utilize protocols or guidelines, in paper or electronic format to help sort symptoms, from chest pain to chicken pox . Telephone triage involves ranking ..., effective, and appropriate dispositions all by telephone. It may include everything from disease management ... nurses . In one 8 hour shift, a telenurse may field 60 80 telephone calls one every 6 10 minutes ... a brief time frame usually 6 10 minutes average. In new research, telephone triage has been compared ... decisions in telephone triage . She discovered that these nurses used pattern recognition, rules ... how the brain naturally solves problems in real world situations. Telephone triage is a high risk ... history Informal telephone triage is as old as the telephone itself. In fact, one of the first calls ... tools could help their practices. Initially, physicians performed telephone advice. Telephone management ... nurses to give telephone advice in the role that physicians once served. A wide variety of similar systems have sprung up over the last decade. In 1990, the term telephone triage appeared on Medline indexes a formal acknowledgement of this new subspecialty. Telephone triage formalization In the early ... more details
. 10 August 1876 Alexander Graham Bell makes the world s first long distance telephonecall, about 6 miles between Brantford and Paris, Ontario, Canada. 1876 Hungarian Tivadar Puskas invented the telephone ... the first two way long distance telephonecall between Cambridge and Boston, Massachusetts, USA. October ... April 1880 world s first wireless telephonecall on Bell and Tainter s photophone distant precursor ... First U.S. coast to coast long distance telephonecall, facilitated by a newly invented vacuum tube ... system using non dial telephones. 25 January 1915 The first transcontinental telephonecall, with Thomas ... 2 ref 1920 to 1969 7 March 1926 First transatlantic telephonecall, from London to New York. ref ...Below is a timeline of the telephone that covers many important dates in the history of the telephone ... Newton Vail 1844 Innocenzo Manzetti The first mooted the idea of a speaking telegraph telephone . 1849 ... telephone, but is said to involve direct transmission of electricity into the user s body. 1854 Charles Bourseul publishes a description of a make break telephone transmitter ... feet, see Reis telephone . Reis used his Telephone the word also invented by Reis to transmit his ..., pages 16 18 ref for a Sound Telegraph, but it does not describe an electromagnetic telephone. 1872 ... Reis s telephone in New York. July 1873 Thomas Edison notes variable resistance in carbon grains due ... instruments. 1 July 1875 Bell uses a bi directional gallows telephone that was able to transmit ... 1876 Elisha Gray invents Water microphone liquid transmitter for use with a telephone, but does not build ... Gray s patent caveat caveat for the telephone. A caveat was like a patent application without ... 11 30am Bell s lawyer brings to the same patent office Bell s patent application for the telephone ... A. 1975. Elisha Gray and the Telephone On the Disadvantages of Being an Expert. Technology and Culture 16 2 133 161. ref 7 March 1876 Bell s US patent No. 174,465 for the telephone is granted. 10 March ... more details
Infobox television show name Ruthie on the Telephone image caption genre Comedy television Comedy starring Ruth Gilbert actress Ruth Gilbert br Phillip Reed opentheme composer country United States language English num seasons 1 num episodes camera Single camera setup Single camera runtime 5 minutes company distributor channel CBS picture format Black and white audio format Monaural first aired start date 1949 08 07 last aired end date 1949 11 05 Ruthie on the Telephone is an American Comedy television comedy television series that was broadcast on the CBS network from August 7 to November 5, 1949. ref cite journal date 1949 10 22 title Brief and Important Ruthie to Hang Up journal Billboard publisher Nielsen Business Media, Inc. volume 61 issue 43 page 5 issn 0006 2510 url http books.google.com books?id Lg4EAAAAMBAJ&pg PT4&dq Ruthie On The Telephone&hl en&ei e0w4TrvPBc6utwfs2qSGAw&sa X&oi book result&ct result&resnum 6&ved 0CEIQ6AEwBQ v onepage&q Ruthie 20On 20The 20Telephone&f false ref It is perhaps most notable for the fact that each episode was only five minutes long, yet it was shown during a prime time television slot. Synopsis The series features a young lady, Ruthie Ruth Gilbert actress Ruth Gilbert , trying to convince a man, Richard Phillip Reed to love her via a telephonecall. The series used a Split screen filmmaking split screen technique to depict the telephone conversation. References reflist External links IMDb title 0793358 http www.tvacres.com comm ruthie.htm Ruthie on the Telephone at TV Acres DEFAULTSORT Ruthie On The Telephone Category 1949 television series debuts Category 1949 television series endings Category 1940s American television series Category American comedy television series Category CBS network shows Category Black and white television programs Category English language television series comedy tv prog stub ... more details
Telephone phobia telephonophobia , telephobia is reluctance or fear of making or taking phone call s, literally, fear of telephone . ref name marshall Social Phobia From Shyness to Stage Fright , by John R. Marshall, 1995, ISBN 0465078966, http books.google.com books?id 2CpVOVXPdJUC&pg PA30&dq 22telephone phobia 22&lr v onepage&q 22telephone 20phobia 22&f false Section Telephone Phobia ref Telephone phobia is also considered to be a type of Social Phobia or Social anxiety problem. ref name marshall Social Phobia From Shyness to Stage Fright , by John R. Marshall, 1995, ISBN 0465078966, http books.google.com books?id 2CpVOVXPdJUC&pg ref Sufferers typically report fear that they would fail to respond appropriately in a telephone conversation, ref name marshall and fear finding nothing to say, which would end in embarrassing silence, stammering, or stuttering. ref name marshall The associated avoidance behavior includes asking others e.g. relatives at home to take their phone calls and exclusive use of answering machine s. ref name marshall As a result, the sufferers avoid many activities, such as scheduling events or clarifying information. ref name bipo Break the bipolar cycle a day by day guide to living with bipolar disorder , by Elizabeth Brondolo, Xavier Amador, http books.google.com books?id gs eHJYmIcC&pg RA1 PA179&dq 22telephone phobia 22 v onepage&q 22telephone 20phobia 22&f false p. 179 ref Another reason is the sufferers may believe that people who call them bear bad or upsetting news. As is common with various fears and phobias, there is a wide spectrum of severity of the fear of phone conversations and the corresponding difficulties. ref name marshall In 1993 it was reported that about 2.5 million people in Great Britain have telephone phobia. ref As cited in The Newspapers ... www.healsocialanxiety.com Social Anxiety Anonymous Nonprofit, has free telephone support groups that allow listening only, if needed for people with telephone phobia and other social phobias. Category ... more details
necessary to identify uniquely the intended endpoint for the telephonecall . Each such endpoint must have a unique number within the public switched telephone network . Most countries use ... translated to unique telephone numbers before the call can be connected. Some special services ... overseen by NeuStar Inc. . Before a telephonecall is connected, the telephone number must be dial ... the call is answered. Business phones Business in mid 20th century and earlier had a single telephone number for the main telephone switchboard of that business. A switchboard operator would connect the call within the business. If the called party did not answer, the caller was typically transferred ... a call off your own local one , followed by turning the telephone s crank once, a short pause ...Globalize date September 2010 for the integer sequence Telephone number mathematics A telephone number or phone number is a sequence of digits used to call from one telephone line to another in a public switched telephone network . When telephone numbers were invented, they were short as few as one, two ... to encompass the world, telephone numbers have become longer. In addition to telephone ... length of the telephone number. It is also possible for each subscriber to have a set of shorter ... 2 being the Emergency telephone number Emergency Services numbers for China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan ... such as 550 1212 , which is the local number. Most telephone networks today are interconnected in the international telephone network, where the format of telephone numbers is standardized by ITU ... telephone exchange . ITU T recommendation E.123 describes how to represent an international telephone ... number from a fixed line phone, the must be replaced with the List of international call prefixes international call prefix chosen by the country the call is being made from. Some mobile phones ... Dialing DID Direct Dialing Inwards DDI in the UK lines so that outside callers can call to a specific ... more details
Image L1010257.jpg thumb Field telephones are mobile telephone s intended for military use, designed to withstand war time conditions. They can draw power from their own battery electricity battery , from a telephone exchange via a Common battery central battery known as CB , or from an external power source. Some need no battery, being sound powered telephone s. Field telephones were first used in the First World War to direct troops. They replaced flag signals and the telegraph as an efficient means of communication. The first field telephones had a wind up Electrical generator generator , used to power the telephone s ringer & batteries to send the call, and call the manually operated telephone central. This technology was used from the 1910s to the 1960s. Later the ring signal has been made electronically operated by a pushbutton, or automatic as on domestic telephones. The manual systems are still widely used, and are often compatible with the older equipment. Field telephones used by the United States Army EE 8, World War II era through Vietnam War . ref http www.olive drab.com od electronics ee8.php EE 8 ref TA 43 TA 312 ref http www.olive drab.com od electronics ta312.php TA 312 ref TA 838, ref http www.associated ind.com field products ta838.htm TA 838 ref includes touch tone key pad. Torture of POWs According to the Army s Vietnam War Crimes Working Group Files , field ... s. ref name nels Field telephones of the Soviet Union 43 field telephone set ... forces early 1970s. TP 6NA Versions of TP 6N A to C M37 Swedish field telephone used by the Norwegian ... in 1932 as the 1st std. field telephone , but never made in great numbers, due to bureaucracy and the start ... telephone Image TA 312offhook.agr.JPG TA 312 with handset off hook Image ... felttelefon ny.html TP 6 Norwegian Field Telephone http www.olive drab.com od electronics ee8.php EE ... ajsolli side2 felttlf.jpg Norwegian mod. 1932 Field Phone DEFAULTSORT Field Telephone ... more details
Bell for showing him the original drawing of the telephone transmitter in Gray s caveat. The world famous scene in which Bell and Watson make their first telephonecall is described in his autobiography ...italic title advert date August 2011 merge Elisha Gray and Alexander Bell telephone controversy date August 2011 The Telephone Gambit is a 2008 book by Seth Shulman about the Elisha Gray and Alexander Bell telephone controversy . It explains how an inside source at the patent office apparently enabled Bell to gain access to and to steal Elisha Gray s invention. Image Bell gray smoking gun.png right 300px thumb An illustration from the book showing the similarity between Elisha Gray s patent caveat and, several weeks later, the illustration of a telephone prototype in Alexander Graham Bell s notebook. The Telephone Gambit Chasing Alexander Graham Bell s Secret by Seth Shulman W.W. Norton, 2008 notes that Bell s notebook records his making small incremental changes every day for months, mostly concerned with his wish to transmit multiple telegraph messages over a single transmission line using ... telephone. On February 14, 1876 Elisha Gray files a caveat like a provisional patent application for a variable resistance telephone. Also on February 14, 1876 the Bell telephone patent is filed ... one of which penciled onto the margin of the original describes a telephone. The main emphasis of Bell ... proceedings to determine whether Bell or Gray invented the telephone first. On February 24, 1876 Bell ... s caveat. Bell does not manage to get the telephone to work until March 10, 1876, even though the patent .... Rebuttal to Shulman s theory Evenson, A. Edward 2000 , The Telephone Patent Conspiracy of 1876 ..., Bell focused on improving the electromagnetic telephone and never used Gray s liquid transmitter ... links http www.boston.com ae books articles 2008 01 15 calling bell on the invention of the telephone ... Weekly DEFAULTSORT Telephone Gambit Category 2008 books Category Alexander Graham Bell ... more details
is used to place a telephonecall vary from card to card. Cards known as remote memory cards have a Personal identification number PIN associated with a specific land line telephone account calls .... Making a Prepaid telephone calls prepaid or calling card call requires the user to make two calls. Regardless of the type of card it is necessary to dial an access telephone number to connect to the calling ... a number unique to the customer, or by recognising the telephone number which originated the call ...refimprove date August 2011 Image Phone Card Aquarius.jpg thumb 2000s telephone card from the USA . A telephone ... a credit card , used to pay for telephone services. It is not necessary to have the physical card except with a stored value system knowledge of the access telephone number to dial and the PIN is sufficient ..., stored value systems make a physical alteration to the card to reflect the new balance after a call ... contact on the card, which rendered the phone unable to reduce the card s value after a call. But by the mid ... through higher call charges total cost of a call to the user is often lower using a local ..., and the call is connected. Many cards make a verbal announcement if credit is running out. Prepaid or calling cards are usually much cheaper than other telephone services, particularly for travelers ... from the home area. Remote memory systems Telephone accounts symbolized by a card The second main ... and check for balance on product. As the United States never had a single nationalized telephone .... To call a long distance number, the user first dials the local access number, then keys in the secret ... remaining on the card is announced, and the call is finally processed through. Remote memory phonecards ... to view their call detail reports CDRs online by logging in to their account. Example of PINless dialling and viewing call reports with details at http www.call18866.co.uk index2.php. Not linked in article ... and informational website concerning U.S. issued telephone cards. Colnect is a site providing the world ... more details
. The first true secure telephone was SIGSALY , a massive device that weighed over 50 tons ... significance are PGPfone and Nautilus secure telephone Nautilus designed as a non Key escrow ... is still used, as some telecommunications circuits, such as HF links and telephone lines in the developing ... Unreferenced date January 2008 DEFAULTSORT Secure Telephone Category Cryptographic hardware Category ... more details
Image Genevieve Clark Bain.jpeg thumb 250px A U.S. candlestick telephone in use, circa 1915. The candlestick telephone is a style of telephone that was common from the late 1890s to the 1930s. History Also known as a desk stand , upright , or a stick phone , it came with or without a rotary dial , and with a ringer box . The first tube shaft candlestick phone was the Western Electric 20B Desk Phone patented in 1904. ref http www.antiquetelephonehistory.com we20b.html ref The main producers of these phones were Western Electric AT&T , Automatic Electric Co. GTE , Kellogg Switchboard & Supply Company Kellogg , and Stromberg Carlson . The candlestick phones made by Western Electric were superseded by the Model 102 telephone in 1927. Citation needed date November 2009 Several retro versions of the candlestick telephone were made long after the original phones were obsolete . The Crosley Radio company makes a 21st century version with push button operation. ref http www.crosleyradio.com Crosley Radio web site ref There are other companies including PHONECO inc. that sells original, restored, and reproductions. ref http www.phonecoinc.com category.asp?map 4&hhrl home&group main&gorl group&category Candle ref The Ericofon , or Cobra Phone is a plastic one piece telephone, in the candlestick upright style, created by the Ericsson Company and marketed throughout the second half of the 20th century. It was the first commercially marketed telephone design to incorporate the dial and headset into a single unit. Because of its styling, and influence on future telephone design, the Ericofon is considered one of the most significant industrial designs of the 20th century and is in the collection of Museum of Modern Art . ref http www.ericofon.com reading industrial.htm. ref Accessories The Hush A Phone was like a mini megaphone created in 1920 ref http www.uh.edu engines epi1222.htm ... CandlestickTelephoneGal.jpg An early 20th century candlestick phone being used for a phone call. Image ... more details
functions. For example, in the UK, users can order a 7.30am alarm call from a British Telecom telephone ...File Telephone keypad2.svg thumb right 200px A standard modern telephone keypad, as used for text messaging . A telephone keypad is a keypad that appears on a Touch Tone telephone . It was standardised when the dual tone multi frequency system in the new push button telephone was introduced in the 1960s, which gradually replaced the rotary dial . ref name Engineering Pathway http www.k grayengineeringeducation.com blog index.php 2009 11 18 engineering education today in history blog bell telephone introduces push button telephone 2 Engineering Pathway Bell Telephone introduces push button telephone ... for four now defunct menu selector keys. When used to dial a telephone number, pressing a single ... system File Telephone keys.JPG right thumb A standard telephone keypad. 0 none in some telephones ... These letters have had several auxiliary uses. Originally, they referred to Telephone exchange names ... than numbers e.g. Telephone number US phone number history KL5 5445 . The Telephone numbers in the United Kingdom UK telephone numbering system used a similar two letter code after the initial zero to form ..., as a way of remembering telephone numbers easily. For example, an interior decorator might license ... for the mapping of letters characters to numbers keypad layouts, as with keyboard layout on telephone ... access to a telephone network Bot generated title ref . There is a standard that covers European languages ... key telephone keypad accessdate 2011 11 03 date 2003 10 29 url http webapp.etsi.org WorkProgram Report ... and assignments to the 12 key telephone keypad for European languages and other languages used in Europe ... and BlackBerry have full keyboards instead of the traditional telephone keypads, the user must execute ... on equipment for mobile use. See also Dual tone multi frequency Push button telephoneTelephone Mobile phone Keypad References reflist Category Telephony equipment Category Telephone numbers de Telefontastatur ... more details
telephone switches, which make telephonecall s work in the sense of making connections and relaying ... , the customer lifts the receiver off hook and asks the Telephone operator operator to connect the call ... the call by plugging into the jack on the Telephone switchboard switchboard corresponding to the called ... call . Almost everywhere, operators have been replaced by computerized exchanges. A telephone switch ...refimprove date March 2010 Image JT Switchboard 770x540.jpg thumb 250px A telephone operator manually connecting calls with cord pairs at a telephone switchboard. In the field of telecommunications , a telephone exchange or telephone switch is a system of electronic components that connects telephone ... on individual telephone number s by local number portability due to customers porting a cancelled landline to a wireless . It is sometimes confused with the Telephone numbering plan Area code area code Telephone numbering plan Area code NPA , which covers multiple exchanges, and which an exchange ... thumb 250px Tivadar Pusk s , inventor of the telephone exchange. File HungarianTelekomMiskolc01.jpg thumb 250px Exchange in Miskolc, Hungary Prior to the telephone, electrical switches were used to switch telegraph lines. One of the first people to build a telephone exchange was Hungary Hungarian ... ref George W. Coy designed and built the first commercial telephone exchange which opened in New Haven ... the earliest telephone exchanges were based in London and Manchester , both of which opened under ... information and communications.htm toc 6 ref Belgium had its first International Bell Telephone ... hundred Telephone switchboard plug boards staffed by telephone operator s. Each operator sat in front ..., each of which was the local termination of a subscriber s telephone line . In front of the jack panel ... be a long distance call handled by subsequent operators in another bank of boards or in another building miles away. In 1918, the average time to complete the connection for a long distance call was 15 ... more details
also called a manual exchange was a device used to connect a group of telephone s manually to one another or to an outside connection, within and between telephone exchange s or private branch exchange s PBXs . The user was typically known as an telephone operator operator . Public manual exchanges ... s as manual branch exchange s. The electromechanical automatic telephone exchange , invented by Almon Strowger in 1888, gradually replaced manual switchboards in central telephone exchanges. Manual ... cord pair. The rear key on older manual boards and PBXs is used to physically ring a telephone ..., ringing and voice and a sleeve wire for busy signal s. When a call is received, a jack lamp ... thumb 200px Telephone Operator, circa 1900. The first telephones in the 1870s were rented in pairs which ... s home so that she could answer calls on a 24 hour basis. In 1894, New England Telephone and Telegraph .... Cord switchboards were often referred to as cordboards by telephone company personnel. Conversion .... In many cases, customers came to know their operator by name. As telephone exchanges converted to automatic ... calling long distance operator in order to place a toll call. In large cities, there was often a special ... advise the calling party to hang up and wait for the call to be completed. Each toll center had only ... information operator, and ring the call. Once the called party answered, the local operator would ... s long distance operator would time the call for billing purposes. In the 1940s, with the advent ... was direct dialable, the operator would dial the call. If the distant city did not have dialable ... call to request a collect call, a call billed to a third number, or a person to person call. All ... exchange. The operator might be able to use a different routing to complete the call. If the operator could not get through by dialing the number, she could call the inward operator in the destination ... service coin collection, getting acceptance on a collect call, etc. , and then release the call ... more details
Telephone Telepathy is the phenomenon where a subject claims to have known who was calling before they picked up the telephone , or to have thought about someone for no reason only to have them call. ref cite journal last Sheldrake first Rupert coauthors Smart, Pamela title EXPERIMENTAL TESTS FOR TELEPHONE ... 199 accessdate 13 October 2011 ref Telephone Telepathy is considered an anomalous cognition AC , that varies ... coauthors Lobach, Eva title Who s calling at this hour? Local Sidereal Time and Telephone Telepathy ... accessdate 25 October 2011 publisher The Parapsychological Association Convention ref Telephone Telepathy ... title Who s calling at this hour? Local Sidereal Time and Telephone Telepathy journal University ... and Jungian psychology Jung philosophies shows the potential of doing the same with Telephone Telepathy ...? Local Sidereal Time and Telephone Telepathy journal University of Amsterdam year 2003 pages 91 url ... Association Convention ref . Early Experiments on Telephone Telepathy Rupert Sheldrake , a biochemist and parapsychologist , created an experiment in 1992 to prove the existence of telephone ... of the caller before answering the phone. They would talk for one minute, then the call would end. ref cite journal last Schmidt first Stefan coauthors Muller and Walsch title EXPERIMENTAL TESTS FOR TELEPHONE ... first Stefan coauthors Muller and Walsch title EXPERIMENTAL TESTS FOR TELEPHONE TELEPATHY journal ... cite web last Sheldrake first Rupert title xperimental Tests For Telephone Telepathy url http www.sheldrake.org ... 3 19 0.80 TOTAL 146 59 40 0.00003 Sheldrake created another similar experiment in telephone telepathy ... Rupert, Hugo, and Simon title A Filmed Experiment on Telephone Telepathy with the Nolan Sisters url ... 29 November 2011 ref The telephone in the hotel room was a direct line to the callers with no interference ... Experiment on Telephone Telepathy with the Nolan Sisters url http www.sheldrake.org Articles&Papers ... web last Sheldrake, Godwin and Rockell first Rupert, Hugo, and Simon title A Filmed Experiment on Telephone ... more details
Telephone counseling refers to any type of psychological service performed over the telephone . Telephone counseling ranges from individual, couple or group psychotherapy with a professional therapist to Emergency psychiatry psychological first aid provided by para professional counselors. In person therapists often advise clients to make use of telephone crisis counseling to provide the client with an avenue ... of a therapeutic relationship. Professional counseling by telephone Researchers have begun ... some of their clients via the telephone. ref name Barnett Barnett, J. Scheetz, K. 2003 . Technological ... of telephone counseling to in person counseling and to no treatment. A recent study found that more .... ref Reese, R., Conoley, C., Brossart, D. 2006 The Attractiveness of Telephone Counseling An Empirical ... clients. ref Reese, R Conoley, C. Brossart, D. 2002 . Effectiveness of Telephone Counseling ... MB, Nagel R. 1997 . Telephone counseling for patients with minor depression preliminary findings ... G, Ludman E. 2000 . Telephone counseling as an adjunct to antidepressant treatment in the primary care ... hotlines also provide telephone support services. These may be state funded or provided by churches ... change. Quitlines should not be confused with centralized call centers offering advice in a wide spectrum ... of counseling, telephone counseling is potentially free of certain constraining factors that affect ... counselor may help you feel more connected with him or her the telephone may contribute to distance ... with local resources. Examples of nonprofit telephone counseling services The Volunteer Emotional ... Samaritans UK http www.ifotes.org welcome.html IFOTES International Federation of Telephone Emergency ... Zealand has a community based, youth oriented Telephone counseling service, Youthline . Based in 11 ... 5 and 18 years. Australia has a national Telephone counseling service, Lifeline Counselling service Lifeline . Also, the larger cities in Australia have other specialised Telephone counseling services ... more details
distinct. The first long distance telephonecall was made on 10 August 1876 by Bell from the family ... telephone Additional inventions such as the Ringing telephony call bell , telephone exchange central ... to the primacy of the invention of the ELECTROMAGNETIC telephone. The article is meant to be an unbiased encyclopedic work detailing the FACTS of the invention of the telephone. You are free to add or edit material related to the primacy of the telephone s invention, if you can cite references BASED ON RELIABLE PRIMARY SOURCES of anyone who invented an electromagnetic telephone prior to Bell the person who invented and documented an electrical telephone in Brantford, Ontario in the summer of 1874 ... of an electromagnetic telephone, as they will be immediately deleted per Wikipedia s MOS policies. Thank ... film 1926 .jpg thumb An actor portraying Alexander Graham Bell speaking into an early model telephone. The invention of the telephone is the culmination of work done by many individuals, the history of which involves a collection of claims and counterclaims. The development of the modern telephone ... 19th century. The origins of the telephone date back to the non electrical string telephone or lover s telephone that has been known for centuries, comprising two Diaphragm acoustics diaphragm s connected ... or wire from one diaphragm to the other. The classic example is the tin can telephone , a children .... Telephone pioneers Charles Grafton Page American Charles Grafton Page 1812 1868 in 1837 ... Main Innocenzo Manzetti Innocenzo Manzetti considered the idea of a telephone as early as 1844 ... Reis. In 1860 Johann Philipp Reis was the first who produced a functioning Reis telephone electromagnetic ... critical to the device s operation. This can be called a telephone , since it did transmit voice sounds over distance, but was hardly a commercially practical telephone in the modern sense, as it failed ... Graham Bell s AT&T American Telephone and Telegraph Company , and the results were covered up by STC ... more details
Refimprove date December 2007 Globalize USA date March 2012 File Phone.svg thumb 195px A cordless telephone with base. A cordless telephone or portable telephone is a telephone with a wireless handset that communicates via radio waves with a base station connected to a fixed telephone line , usually ... premises, and attaches to the telephone network the same way a corded telephone does. The base station on subscriber premises is what differentiates a cordless telephone from a mobile telephones mobile telephone . Current cordless telephone standards, such as Personal Handy phone System ... network operator and users subscribe to the service. Unlike a corded telephone, a cordless telephone ... Telephone, AT&T and Bell Lab. He presented the demonstration in the home of SWCC President A.V. ... FOR PORTABLE TELEPHONE ... G. H. SWEIGERT ref Google Patents link. http www.google.com patents?id ... Telephone & Telegraph AT&T owned telephone lines in the late 1960s. This was banned at the time ... , a crude device for interconnecting a two way radio with the telephone, led to the reversal of the Federal ... the Carterphone, were acoustically not electrically connected to the Public Switched Telephone Network ... between a Base Station connected directly to a telephone line of a telephone exchange and a Mobile Unit consisting of a small, compact cordless telephone instrument containing transmitter, receiver ... market. Typically, they used a base station that was connected to a telephone line and a handset with a microphone ... AA battery AA or AAA cells in place of the more expensive traditional proprietary telephone batteries ... quality, the method of modulation used, and interference, which varies locally. Plain old telephone ... ever exactly match the sound quality of a high quality wired telephone attached to a good telephone ... This is not interference from outside sources, but noise within the cordless telephone system. Frequency response not being the full frequency response available in a wired landline telephone Most manufacturers ... more details
Bell Telephone may refer to Bell Telephone Company , several telephone companies with similar names Bell Telephone Building disambiguation , various The Bell Telephone Hour , a long running radio and television concert program A hypothetical device named after physicist John Stewart Bell John Bell which allows signals to be sent faster than the speed of light using quantum mechanics . Disambig ... more details
call and noted that the telephone addressed in the lyrics of the song is, in reality, a person telling her to continue working harder. Musically, Telephone consists of an expanded bridge music bridge ...Infobox single See Wikipedia WikiProject Songs Name Telephone Cover Telephone LadyGaga.jpg For discussion ... in a rounded cursive font. In the lower left corner, the words in and Telephone are both in that same ... Telephone feat. Beyonc Legal Title BMI Work 10400713 accessdate 2010 04 19 publisher Broadcast Music ... single Bad Romance br 2009 This single Telephone br 2010 Next single Alejandro song Alejandro br ... Song br 2010 This single Telephone br 2010 Next single Run the World Girls br 2011 Extra track listing Album The Fame Monster Type single Tracks The Fame Monster track listing Telephone is a song ... Lady Gaga Explains Inspiration Behind Beyonc Collabo, Telephone last Vena first Jocelyn last2 Calloway ... Telephone as a stand out track from The Fame Monster and it was Grammy Award Grammy nominated for Grammy Award for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals in 2011. Telephone ... McQueen , Gaga performed an acoustic rendition of Telephone mixed with Dance in the Dark at the 2010 ... Spears demo of Telephone leaked onto the web in May 2010. Background Double image right Britney Spears Boys.jpg 100 Beyonce.jpg 98 Telephone was initially written for Britney Spears left . When she did ... Telephone was written by Lady Gaga, who originally wrote the song for Britney Spears Who later ... telephone title New Lady Gaga, Telephone Stream It Here last Greenblatt first Leah date 2009 11 16 work ... view&id 4211&Itemid 243 title Lady Gaga Telephone date 2010 01 09 accessdate 2010 01 20 author Staff ... format Ogg title Telephone pos left description A 22 second sample to Telephone featuring the chorus where Gaga sings the line Stop calling, stop calling, I don t want to talk anymore. Telephone was written ... review Lady Gaga Telephone feat. Beyonc date 2010 03 15 accessdate 2010 03 16 work BBC publisher ... more details
wiktionarypar telephone A Telephone , also called a phone , is a telecommunication device which is used to transmit and receive sound simultaneously. Telephone or phone may also refer to Telecommunications Camera phone , a mobile phone that is also able to capture either still photographs or video Cordless telephone , a telephone with a wireless handset that communicates via radio waves to its base station Mobile phone , a.k.a. a cell , cellphone or mobile is a wireless telecommunications device used for phone and data calls over a cellular network Radiotelephone , a.k.a. a radiophone a telephone that allows two or more people to talk via radio, often referring to an older radio telephone system that predated modern mobile cellular phones Softphone , a software program for making telephone calls over the Internet using computers Telephone application , a softphone telecommunication app for Mac OS X, by Alexei Kuznetsov Tin can telephone , a type of voice transmitting device usually made from two tin cans and string or wire Videophone , telephones with video displays, which enable their users to see each other as well in real time Social and cultural Chinese whispers a.k.a. Telephone , Broken Telephone , Le t l phone arabe , Wisper Down The Lane , or the Telephone Game , a children s game often played at parties or at a playground In music, film and the arts T l phone , a French rock band formed in 1976 Telephone song Telephone , a 2010 song by Lady Gaga and Beyonc Telefone Long Distance Love Affair , a 1983 song by Sheena Easton Telephone , a 1984 song by Diana Ross The Telephone Album , a 1998 album by the band Lotion Telefon film , a 1977 spy film directed by Don Siegel s A Telephonic Conversation Telephonic Conversation , an 1880 short story by Mark Twain Similar Speaking tube , a non electrical communication device using two cones connected by an air pipe. Users alternately ... homonymie ja krc nl Telefoon ru fi Telephone sv Telephone ... more details
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