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Un bon vieux tableau électrique des années 50 aux normes... "Claude François" !

Ok, je sors... et très loin !!! lol

 

Petit détail : la jante de Citroën 2Ch qui devait servir à enrouler un éventuel tuyau d'arrosage.

Switchboard inspections in 1951 and 2015. Today crews wear arc-rated clothing for extra protection.

Beschrijving: Meisjes aan de polijstmachine in een fabriek waar gouden colliers worden gemaakt

 

Datum: Onbekend

 

Vervaardiger: J.D. Filarski

 

Formaat: 18 x 23.5 cm

 

Bestanddeelnummer: 2.24.03_2255_256-1587

 

Fotocollectie: Arbeidsinspectie

 

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I was invited to shoot some pictures at the former PTT (PTT, Nederlands) NCO Arnhem communications atomic bunker, built under the "De Leuke Linde" playground during the Cold War (Koude Oorlog). After the Cold War ended, it was used as a high-secure relay station for the Nationaal Noodnet emergency communications network.

 

Some of my photos will be used for the Stichting NCO Arnhem & Nationaal Noodnet website, brochures and other PR stuff.

I have spent many hours underground, the place is a treasure-trove of history, science, (communications) technology and architecture. It is absolutely amazing. The place will be opened to the public in 2014 and I can highly recommend taking the guided tour.

 

I have made a couple of mistakes during the first photography session; I should have made more use of my white/greycards, my lenses gathered quite a bit of dust, which I failed to notice.

I think I could spend a week inside, photographing every little detail and awesome piece of technology and history, but you should really go and see for yourself.

The Flickr Lounge group has chosen Multiples for the weekend theme in week 49 of 2024.

Fortress switchboard, made by Hasler AG Bern from 1988-1989 for the artillery. It was used in this plant until 1998. Furggels, St. Margrethenberg, Switzerland, Aug 12, 2015.

7DOS MUSEUM FOCUS FRIDAY

An old switchboard at the Museum of Science and Technology

Telephonists at the telephone switchboard of the Rijkspostspaarbank in the head-office at Van Baerlestraat in Amsterdam.

 

Telefonistes bij de telefooncentrale van Rijkspostspaarbank in het gebouw aan de Van Baerlestraat te Amsterdam.

 

Pers- en Publiciteitsdienst PTT

From the William C. Reed Collection (COLL/5634) at the Archives Branch, Marine Corps History Division

 

OFFICIAL USMC PHOTOGRAPH

This illustration shows arrestin (yellow), an important type of signaling protein, while docked with rhodopsin (orange), a G protein-coupled receptor. GPCRs are embedded in cell membranes and serve an important role in a cellular signaling network. An experiment conducted at SLAC’s Linac Coherent Light Source X-ray laser provided an atomic-scale 3-D map of this joined structure.

 

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Source: livinghistories.newcastle.edu.au/nodes/view/52914

 

This photo appeared in the University News, Vol. 12, No. 19, Oct. 27 - Nov. 10, 1986. The text was:

 

"Meet the Switchboard Girls

 

Have you often wondered about the face that belongs to the voice kept very busy. They handle an average of 160 trunk calls a day at the end of your telephone? Let me introduce Betty Line and as well as other outgoing and incoming calls. Margaret Clare our Switchboard Operators.

 

Betty and Margaret literally spend their day on the 'phone. Betty first started working for the University as a holiday and sick relief switchboard operator in 1969. In 1976 Telecom reviewed the call traffic and indicated to the University that it should acquire a second switchboard, which it did, and Betty became a permanent part-timer, and then, after 18 months became a full-time employee.

 

Margaret also started working with the University as a holiday and relief switchboard operator between 1981 to 1983 and then went on to to be a full-timer.

 

Betty and Margaret not only handle incoming and outgoing calls but act as an information centre. One of their most common queries is "how do I get to the University?" Betty and Margaret say that it is surprising what information they are asked for. The queries they receive often give them a good laugh.

 

Recently, one of the large supermarkets rang and asked if "the University hired out cows." Betty and Margaret often receive ambiguous calls such as people asking to speak to "a bloke with red hair named Fred." One of their more difficult jobs is keeping track of visitors and conferences.

 

Although Betty and Margaret have very limited face-to-face contact with people they have made many friends over the telephone. Betty said sometimes it's quite peculiar because you get to know voices over the telephone and when you go to the bank you hear someone in front of you and you recognise their voice and thus are finally able to put a face to a familiar voice.

 

Fortunately, Betty and Margaret find that most people are polite on the telephone.

 

One thing they do find stressful is music which is played ovcr the 'phone while you wait. Whilst most of this is pleasant some of it is very loud and if you have to listen to a lot of music during the day it becomes quite stressful. Betty and Margaret are kept very busy. They handle an average of 160 trunk calls a day as well as other outgoing and incoming calls.

 

When the present switchboard was installed it was the first one of its kind in Newcastle but it is now somewhat outdated, however, its replacement equipment would be very expensive. Telephone faults are reported to Margaret and Betty who contact Telecom for repair service. There are only 12 lines into the switchboard, 10 lines to dial out on and six internal lines to the switch. Often people ring and get the busy signal as all lines are engaged."

 

This image was scanned from a photograph in the University's historical photographic collection held by Cultural Collections at the University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia.

 

If you have any information about this photograph, or would like a higher resolution copy, please contact us.

 

Longbridge factory Austin 1951. Women operating the switchboard in the Telephone Exchange.

 

Collection: Longbridge

Date: 1951

Reference Number: L002810-4

 

To enquire about any of our images or for more information, please contact photo@britishmotormuseum.co.uk or visit our photographic website at www.motorgraphs.com/.

A second switchboard is still in operation for internal communication and can be tried out. Here are show signs in place of lights. Switzerland, Aug 31, 2019. (12/23)

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The switchboard was removed shortly after this photo was taken in 2004. The last patch on the board was "The Pirates of Penzance". It was made by HUB Electric Company for the school in 1967, where it would have originally been attached to manually driven autotransformer dimmers that would require a large crew for a single scene change. By the time I got there, the manual dimmers were replaced by the "gorilla proof" Teatronics dimmers and a Teatronics Tech Director console.

Manning the switchboards for Fire! at Kongsberg 2016.

 

Neopan 400 @ 400 ISO, D-76 @ 1+3 for 15:00. Leica MP + Noctilux.

Control room. Santa Fe NM. Old Main prison. Site of one of the worst prison riots in the US.

One of 7 vintage Kellogg telephones in the Seelye Mansion. Made in Chicago, Illinois.

 

Seelye Mansion, Abilene, Kansas

 

From Wikipedia:

 

Kellogg Switchboard & Supply Company was a major manufacturer of telephone exchange equipment. It was founded in Chicago, Illinois, by Milo G. Kellogg, an electrical engineer. Along with Western Electric (who supplied the Bell system), Automatic Electric (who supplied General Telephone) and Stromberg-Carlson, it controlled the nation's supply of telephone equipment until after World War II.[1]

 

History

 

Kellogg was born into a prominent and wealthy New England family. He attended prep school, and received two degrees in engineering from the University of Rochester. He married into one of Chicago's most prestigious families, and relocated to Illinois.[2]

 

In the 1880s, Kellogg had been a manager at Western Electric (he was superintendent of Western Electric's Chicago manufacturing and research plant) and the Southern Telephone and Telegraph Company.[3] In 1897, with Alexander Graham Bell's patent for the telephone expiring, Kellogg set up his own manufacturing firm, Kellogg Switchboard & Supply Company. Kellogg himself held more than 150 patents, and he had invented and patented the Divided Multiple telephone switchboard. The new company manufactured the equipment as its flagship product. This switchboard offered greater flexibility and efficiency than earlier designs in handling large numbers of telephone subscribers at each urban exchange.[4] Kellogg Switchboard & Supply primarily supplied local independent telephone companies.[1]

 

Fight for control

 

In 1901, Kellogg fell seriously ill. His brother-in-law, Wallace De Wolf, proved to be a poor manager. Concerned that the company might fail, De Wolf secretly sold a majority of Kellogg's stock to Western Electric. Easily manipulated by Western Electric executives and legal advisors, De Wolf also helped Western Electric attempt to take over the country's other large telephone equipment manufacturer, Stromberg-Carlson. A bitter stockholder fight ensued, which led to Stromberg-Carlson's reincorporation as a New York state corporation in 1902.[1][3][4]

 

Milo Kellogg recovered his health, and discovered what De Wolf had done. Kellogg sued to stop the sale of his stock. In two separate decisions by the Supreme Court of Illinois—Brown v. Cragg, 230 Ill. 299 (1907) and Dunbar v. American Telephone and Telegraph, 238 Ill. 456 (1909)—Kellogg retained ownership of his company.[5]

 

1903 strike

 

In 1903, the Kellogg Switchboard & Supply Company was the target of a bitter strike by the Brass Molder's Union Local 83 and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. Kellogg Switchboard & Supply was supported by the Bell Telephone Trust (which at the time owned most of Kellogg Switchboard's stock), the Illinois Manufacturers' Association, and the Employers' Association of Chicago. Kellogg Switchboard sued to stop the Teamsters from engaging in their sympathy strike, and won an injunction forcing the drivers back to work.[6] The Kellogg company refused to negotiate, fired nearly 90 percent of its workforce, and broke the strike.[1][7]

 

Post-WWII history

 

The company prospered in the early 20th century. It introduced the Relaymatic automatic switching system in 1939 and a crossbar switching system in 1950.[citation needed]

 

The ITT Corporation purchased a controlling interest in Kellogg Switchboard & Supply in 1951, rebranding the new division's equipment as ITT Kellogg for a decade. It then became ITT Telecommunications, but reverted to ITT Kellog in 1986.[citation needed] Among ITT Kellog's acquisitions in the 1950s was telephone manufacturer Federal Telephone & Radio.[8]

 

In 1989, ITT sold its telecommunications product lines, including ITT Kellogg, to Alcatel, now Alcatel-Lucent. The company's U.S. operations were later sold and went private. What is left of Kellogg Switchboard & Supply now goes by the name Cortelco Kellogg. It is owned by Cortelco (Corinth Telecommunications Corporation) and is based in Corinth, Mississippi.[citation needed]

 

On December 12, 2008 eOn Communications announced an agreement to acquire Cortelco Systems Holding Corporation.[9]

 

The Manual Switchboard plug and the three connections it had. Two for the audio pair (50 V DC voltage) and one for ringing telephones (a AC voltage)

It is in the first room when you come in, on the wall opposite the dining table. In a small military command and combat bunker from the time of World War II with two machine gun positions. This plant in the Réduit front sector Schollberg-Sarganserau-Tschingel was declassified as a last. Sargans, Switzerland, July 10, 2013.

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Item 37908, Pike Place Market Visual Images and Audiotapes (Record Series 1628-02), Seattle Municipal Archives.

Pride London, 3 July 2010.

 

DISCLAIMER: THIS IS NOT WAYNE ROONEY.

 

He kept trying to give me cards (forgetting that he had already done so). Actually one of the best looking guys of the whole day, even though he looks like a good looking Wayne Rooney. I don't fancy Wayne Rooney at all!

We were told not to touch it as no one knows if this still is operational or not. If it is, we could kill telecommunications for the area. Ah well, at least it's bright red and chalkboard green.

Substation located at 7th and Yesler. Item 3889, Engineering Department Photographic Negatives (Record Series 2613-07), Seattle Municipal Archives.

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LGLS Ceilidh at Assembly Rooms Edinburgh

American and German vehicular- and field radio equipment, radio receivers, beacons, portable communications units, field telephone- and other wire-related switchboards, remote control sets and a range of accessories.

On display are for example the „workhorses“ of the infantry such as the legendary U.S. „handie talkie“ SCR 536 and BC-1000/SCR-300 radios complete with all their accessories, as well as the famous German “Feld.fu b and c” „Tornisterfunkgerät“ or „Bertha-Gerät“ “Conrad Gerät” sets in their brown bakelite housing, the “Tornister-Empfänger b” and “Tornister Funkgerät Fu d2” (“Dora-Gerät). All radios are fairly complete with spare batteries, aerials, special antennas, earphones, microphones, throat microphones, Morse keys, spare valves and other accessories.

 

On the German side are also a selection of field phones or either standard issue, WWI recycled vintage, as well as from captured and modified stocks of Czech, Polish, French and other origins. A broad selection of all kind of wire equipment accessories: cable dispensers, harnesses, climbing equipment, power-phone sets, lineman tools, ...... and so on, completes the exhibit.

 

The „highlights“ are certainly a German „bunker“ phone, German teletypewriter of 1942 issue, German light signaling radio equipment, as well as on the U.S. side the personal „handie talkie“ donated to the museum by H.R.H. Grand Duke Jean of Luxembourg, which H.R.H. used as an officer of the „Irish Guards“ during the liberation of Luxembourg by U.S. forces in mid-September 1944, a 4-unit “easy to transport and conceal” RR-6 radio, as used by special agents of the OSS in 1944/45 in Europe

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Telephone switchboard, Japan Baptist Hospital, Kyoto, 1955: tel. no. (7) 0540

a thing found leaning

Abandoned military air defense comand shelter of GDR army. Underground exploration with c2kknd

One of the main switchboards which provide power to the racks, with two panels open. On the right the copper feeder bars are exposed.

Battleship TEXAS State Historic Site Web site: www.tpwd.state.tx.us/spdest/findadest/parks/battleship_texas

 

I'm writing a story about the ship for "Texas Highways" magazine - should be published September 2009. Magazine Web site: www.texashighways.com/

This photograph was used in the Tyndall Target vol. 1, issue 19, page 3: "Captain John Thorpe, commander of the Signal Service Company a former official of AT&T. MIT graduate in 1936." Power switchboard for telephones. Note the batteries in the background.

Tibet Foundation

 

Tibet Foundation Earthquake Appeal 2008

Update: 17 July 2008

 

Tibet Foundation has so far sent £24,000 to schools in the disaster

area inside Tibet.

This is around RMB 325,000 Chinese Yuan or $ 48,000 US Dollars.

 

There remains an urgent need for long term rehabilitation work

particularly in schools.

Our second stage target is to raise £50,000 for rehabilitation and

relief work in the Tibetan areas in which we have been working since

1993 through our Aid to Tibet programme.

Our current identified priorities remain for community level

interventions where we can make a real difference through local

action.

 

Donate Now:

www.justgiving.com/tibetearthquake

Other Ways to Donate:

www.tibet-foundation.org/tf/donate.php

One of the best ways of helping is to set up a standing order:

www.tibet-foundation.org/tf/forms/generic_tf_boform.pdf

 

Money Distributed so Far

 

We have supported schools with food and blankets to a total of £9,000.

We have committed £13,000 to furniture and equipment for schools.

 

We have supported an orphanage with an immediate grant of £2,000 for

children with special needs. This has doubled its numbers to over 100

needy children and we will make a series of small grants to schools

and longer term education sponsorships for children in the earthquake

areas.

 

The Ark - Longkang Orphanage has 43 children aged 3-12. They are of

Tibetan background, with mental and physical special needs. Some

minor, some more serious.

They have one doctor and rely on their own resources, with a lot of

volunteer, labour, materials and benefit in kind support from local

communities. It is located 2 miles north of Jiuzhaigou National Park.

The plan is to take in another 60 young people with special needs from

the Quake area in the next weeks.

However there isn't the capacity long term to house and feed over 100

children, especially given the extra needs of these young people.

Therefore this is likely to be for the short term (less than 1 year).

Although there is currently a great deal of uncertainty in the

aftermath of this huge disaster.

 

Contributions have come in from our supporters and many Tibetans from

across the world.

 

We are very grateful for this and are committed to working to help the

vulnerable who will bear the consequences of this terrible natural

disaster.

 

My sincere appreciation for your generosity,

Karma Hardy

 

Director

karma.hardy@tibet-foundation.org

Switchboard +44 207 930 6001

 

Previous Updates:

 

www.tibet-foundation.org/news/newsitem.php?NewsStory=130

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www.tibet-foundation.org/news/newsitem.php?NewsStory=128

www.tibet-foundation.org/news/newsitem.php?NewsStory=131

 

One of the best ways of helping is to set up a standing order to Tibet

Foundation, please contact the office to find out the best way to do

this or click on the link below and print out the form and return it

to us.

 

www.tibet-foundation.org/tf/forms/generic_tf_boform.pdf

 

Tibet Foundation is a registered UK charity founded and managed by

Tibetans to work both in exile and inside ethnic Tibetan areas in

China.

The area in which we have been working is Kandze is all within 300km

of the epicentre of the earthquake near Yingxiu.

Kandze is the name given both to the region (Kandze Autonomous

Prefecture) and a county (Kandze County) in the north west of Sichuan

Tibet Foundation is continuing to approach other funders and we

welcome the opportunity to discuss our appeal and would like to make

the offer of being available by email, telephone and meeting in

person.

The 12th May 7.9 earthquake hit the Sichuan Aba Tibetan and Qiang

Autonomous Prefecture in Wenchuan County and affected more than half

of China and beyond to neighbouring countries.

The epicentre was in Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture.

Aba is also known as the Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture.

Aba Tibetan Prefecture has been affected mainly in terms of

infrastructure, roads, bridges and transport hubs in the region.

Tibetan areas adjacent to Wenchuan (which in Tibetan language is

called "Lung Kuo") were badly affected by the quake. But Wenchuan and

the surrounding towns and cities are mainly Han Chinese. The Tibetan

areas lie further afield. For that reason, the damage may prove to be

less extensive there than closer to the epicentre. As Tibetan homes

tend to be traditionally made of wood, they are better able to

withstand quake damage. Although the effects of the quake were felt

very powerfully above 3000m, the damage was greatest in the zone of

500m to 1000m with the higher population.

 

Fax +44 207 930 6002

office@tibet-foundation.org

Tibet Foundation (Charity No. 292400).

2 St. James's Market. London SW1Y 4SB

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That's about to change if U.S. IWC Commissioner Dr. William Hogarth successfully removes a key safeguard for these giant marine mammals.

 

Whales are already vulnerable to pollution, global warming, sonar, drilling, fishnet entrapment, ship strikes, habitat loss and more human hazards. Yet Dr. Hogarth wants to dilute the IWC's moratorium on commercial whaling.

 

Granted, the commercial ban has been difficult to enforce. Japan, Iceland and Norway have long exploited an IWC exemption for "scientific whaling." There is no rationale for butchering whales to analyze migration, age, ecology or behavior. Eminent scientists and legal authorities rebuke "scientific whaling" as pointless. In fact, science-based slaughter is a veil for commerce in whale meat.

 

Dr. Hogarth further undercuts whale preservation with his proposal to accept some commercial whaling and allow it in coastal waters. I encourage you to appoint the Director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) as the U.S. IWC Commissioner and oppose strategies that endorse Special Permit catches or "Coastal Whaling." I hope you will uphold IWC regulations and discount any type whaling presently forbidden under them.

 

The U.S. ought to use its clout to halt whaling from Japan, Iceland and Norway -- not appease them with watered down rules. Japan, in particular, has continually defied international treaty obligations and hunted endangered whales. Moreover, whale hunts are profoundly inhumane. Harpoons explode inside their bodies. It can take a half to full hour for a whale to die. Some, tied to the side of ships, suffocate as they thrash in vain.

 

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This switchboard was manned 24 hours around the clock. During the night with one person, on the day with two people. In maneuvers there were four people at work here and at the same time, the telephone exchange at the command post was taken in operation.

Military fortress «Furggels» above Pfäfers, St. Margrethenberg, Switzerland, Sep 25, 2010.

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