Still life: old 'phones
Created with 3D products from Digital Artist Zone.
Takes me back to my very early days of working for the phone company,
The big one on the left had its own batteries that needed replacing every few years. This was a lot of work as I worked as an area tech, in the early 1960's, changing these batteries amongst other jobs.
The wooden on the right didn't have batteries as the battery was a big one in the manual (lots of switchboard operators) telephone exchange (common battery). The first exchange I was assigned to (late 1960) had this technology.
The candlestick phones were very rare, even in the 1960's. We replaced them with more modern phones.
I never worked on the real fancy automatic phone, although we did have similar ones (232) made out of Bakelite and more utilitarian.
Still life: old 'phones
Created with 3D products from Digital Artist Zone.
Takes me back to my very early days of working for the phone company,
The big one on the left had its own batteries that needed replacing every few years. This was a lot of work as I worked as an area tech, in the early 1960's, changing these batteries amongst other jobs.
The wooden on the right didn't have batteries as the battery was a big one in the manual (lots of switchboard operators) telephone exchange (common battery). The first exchange I was assigned to (late 1960) had this technology.
The candlestick phones were very rare, even in the 1960's. We replaced them with more modern phones.
I never worked on the real fancy automatic phone, although we did have similar ones (232) made out of Bakelite and more utilitarian.