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“SOUTH PACIFIC SWITCHBOARD OPERATOR----A bomb-proof shelter shields this MArine Operator from the constant bombings of U.S. Positions on Guadalcanal. The switchboard, with connecting lines running out to all field forces is portable and can be moved on a few moments notice.”
"Field telephone switchboard."
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From the Thayer Soule Collection (COLL/2266) at the Archives Branch, Marine Corps History Division
OFFICIAL USMC PHOTOGRAPH
Collection Name: RG005 SOS Publications Vanishing Missouri Collection. Click here to view the entire collection on Missouri Digital Heritage.
Description: Roy Henshaw, unknown, Lola Westbrook and Gwendolyn Westbrook work in the Lancaster telephone office.
Photographer/Studio: unknown; submitted by Juanita Scott
Coverage: United States – Missouri – Schuyler County – Lancaster
Date: c1921
Rights: Permission granted
Credit: Courtesy of Missouri State Archives
Image Number: RG005_Pubs_VanMOII_17_33D.tif
Institution: Missouri State Archives
Source: Digital image.
Set: HAY01.
Image: CP/GEN/177
Date: 1910.
From a collection donated by Mr J. Hayward.
Local Studies at Swindon Central Library.
Every year as daylight saving time kicks in we notice that it becomes less and less of a chore to change the clocks.
We've got SO many time souces now. The FM DTS signal carries time information. The DAB radio signal carries a time signal. All the phone networks carry time information. The caller ID signal carries time information. The UK National Physical Laboratory broadcasts the MSF time signal from Cumbria, and that can be received across most of Western Europe. Internet enabled devices can get time from a host of NTP servers across the globe. And of course we've got the incredibly accurate GPS time signal which is becoming the most common way to get super accurate time.
Interestingly, the GPS time signal doesn't get updated with 'leap seconds', so instead it broadcasts a time and a correction factor, so UTC might be broadcast as GPS time plus 19 seconds, or somesuch.
Despite all this, there are some devices that just aren't smart yet. We're talking your old mantlepiece clock, your clockwork devices, most wristwatches, the cooker, etc.
Even though we do it twice a year there's usually always one device that has you breaking out the manual or, more recently, searching the net for instructions. For me, that's the phone switchboard. It's a dead easy key sequence but I can NEVER remember it!
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Copyright 1996 for illustrations: Teruhisa Kitahara;
Photos by Yukio Shimizu
> 1950s, Switchboard Operator (Line Mar)
Original edition: 1996 Benedikt Taschen GmbH
Verlag: TASCHEN GmbH (Köln / Deutschland; 2002)
ex libris MTP
Photographer: Rosenfeld and Sons
Description: 8x10 glass plate negative photographed by Rosenfeld and Sons on December 7, 1916. Image of female switchboard operator at switchboard. Visible in image: female operator at switchboard, adjusting the toggle on the "Western Electric / COMPANY / 2RES. / FORIEGN BATTERY / 2 VOLT / GROUND / M.D.T. / ROWLER / MAG. / TALK / RING. / REV." box, with gauge above "MADE BY / WESTON / ELECTRICAL / INSTRUMENT / COMPANY / NEWARK / N.J. USA / NO.". CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection. Handwritten on original negative sleeve: "5663 / 12/7/16 / 458-6 / 3 Rd from left Bottom / in frame / Busyman Story / Tel. Co. Mr. Carroll / Box 458".
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.
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
Auteursrechten: Nationaal Archief
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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.
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.
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.
Read more: www6.slac.stanford.edu/news/2015-07-22-long-sought-discov...
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.
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Longbridge factory Austin 1951. Women operating the switchboard in the Telephone Exchange.
Collection: Longbridge
Date: 1951
Reference Number: L002810-4
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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)
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.
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.
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.