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Medina Telephone Exchange 1903-1972: information is from the Lakeside Tweedsmuir Book.
Last old hand crank system for over 500 customers housed in the home of Mrs Marion Munro. Names from the article: Mrs Marion Munro, Mrs Nellie Simonson, Mrs Edna Borland are full time and Mrs Dorothy Taylor and Mrs Ruth [Munro] Gates are part time. Ruth Munro has operated the switchboard of and on since she was 6 years old. Grant Sutherland, one of the directors took the last call from the switchboard.
Digitised image from the Town Hall Photographer's Collection - GB127.M850.
The Town Hall Photographer’s Collection is a large photographic collection held in Manchester City Council’s Central Library archives, ranging in date from 1956 to 2007.
The collection consists of tens of thousands of images, covering the varied areas of work of Manchester Corporation and latterly, Manchester City Council.
The photographs were taken by staff photographers, who were tasked to document the work of Corporation/Council departments and, in doing so, captured many aspects of Manchester life and history, including significant changes to the Manchester landscape.
The collection includes many different formats from glass negatives, to slides, prints, CDs and even a couple of cine films.
What is especially exciting is that the majority of these images have never before been available in a digital format and therefore have only ever been seen by a handful of people.
A team of dedicated Staff and Volunteers are currently working on the systematic digitisation of the negatives held within the collection.
This album represents the result of their work to date.
Digitised image from the Town Hall Photographer's Collection - GB127.M850.
The Town Hall Photographer’s Collection is a large photographic collection held in Manchester City Council’s Central Library archives, ranging in date from 1956 to 2007.
The collection consists of tens of thousands of images, covering the varied areas of work of Manchester Corporation and latterly, Manchester City Council.
The photographs were taken by staff photographers, who were tasked to document the work of Corporation/Council departments and, in doing so, captured many aspects of Manchester life and history, including significant changes to the Manchester landscape.
The collection includes many different formats from glass negatives, to slides, prints, CDs and even a couple of cine films.
What is especially exciting is that the majority of these images have never before been available in a digital format and therefore have only ever been seen by a handful of people.
A team of dedicated Staff and Volunteers are currently working on the systematic digitisation of the negatives held within the collection.
This album represents the result of their work to date.
The switchboard of the military fortress museum Heldsberg. The fortress was built during the Second World War and is publicly accessible today.
Mine telephone switchboard. Sobering that "Fire", "Amb[ulance]" and "Hosp[ital]" are marked - I presume those calls got made more often than they should.
No. 9 Coal Mine & Museum in Lansford, PA - this is inside the museum building, which was small but had some interesting artefacts on display.
Winter vacation to The Poconos, Feb 2009.
This is the switchboard station of the Bodie telephone operator as it was left. Another interesting glimpse into a past era and history. (Bodie, CA - Bodie Ghost Town)
Laura Ingalls Wilder Museum in located in Walnut Grove, Minnesota. This old-time telephone switchboard caught my eye.
The Navy figured if Fort Casey got bombarded, the communications facilities needed to be heavily insulated from direct hits. Sure would love to see if there are any artifacts inside.
The old operator's switchboard which was donated to the museum when it was retired. If I remember correctly, this was sometime that astonished me for how late it was, something like the 1970s.
High-voltage switchboard in the hydro-electric power station at the Tuntang river near Semarang, 1919 (photographer unknown)
Papan penghubung tegangan tinggi di pembangkit listrik tenaga air di Sungai Tuntang dekat Semarang, 1919 (fotografer tidak dikenal)
Cpl. William Ermoian, Chicago, Ill., connecting wires. S/Sgt. A. B. Colusia, Chattanooga, Tenn., at switchboard. 2 July, 1944.
Company B, 99th Signal Company.
Photographer: Pvt. Mack Gould.
The switchboard was removed and the dimmers next to it re-purposed in 2004. This is how I learned patching, and the word "soft patch" which refers to computerized patching has a different meaning for me, as its much easier to do and you can sit on your "soft" office chair while doing it.
Disabled switchboard operators. Panasonic headquarters. Beijing. China.
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Credit: Crozet M. / ILO
Date : 2007-08
Country : China
ILO PHOTO reference ILO photo e5328
To think that at one time in America there were so few calls that a person could set in front of one of these and be able to control them all with a few cords and cables moved to different holes in a board.
beneath Grand Central Terminal NY. Switched the DC power from the Rotary converters to the third rails on the tracks in the station.
Back in the mid to late 1980'þ I worked at the Indianapolis main office location for Cellular One Mobile Telephones, as the Front Desk Receptionist, Switchboard Operator; Mail Clerk; Package Delivery director; walk-in customer director; In-House Sales Calls Distributor; Special Project Typist for the Sales Department; and anything else they could come up with at the time! So I guess you could say I wore a LOT of "hats" at that job!
At the time, all cellular or mobile phones were hardwired into your vehicle, with the phone handpiece/receiver set on an adjustable pedestal which was screwed down through the floor of the transmission "hump" between the two front seats of rear-wheel-drive cars. If your car was front-wheel-drive, and had no "hump," which most at the time did not, then they just screwed down a taller pedestal made for that purpose.
The receiver had a curly, stretchy cord, just like your home phone at the time had. All the wiring inside the car was carefully installed from front to back under the carpeting and tucked up under trim pieces inside the car.
The very large, heavy battery pack (nicknamed "the boat anchor!") was installed in the trunk of the car, or, failing that, as far back behind the passenger compartment as possible, and still be completely protected from weather and possible theft or vandalism. Meaning, in things like pickups, they had to be inside the cab, but up under the seat, or behind the second seat in Crew Cab or Club Cab models.
The last individual piece was the antenna, which had an unusual looking installation technique that seemed to pass right through whatever glass window you chose to have it installed! There were two pieces of the mounting bracket - one which was stuck with a powerful pre-applied (peel-and-stick) adhesive to the outside of the chosen glass window, that held the actual removable antenna mast, and a mated black plastic base that carried the end of the antenna wiring up to the outer base, where the signals would pass through the glass.
Calls were placed and received by dialing out on the buttons on the back side of the handset as it faced the user, or answering by hitting the "ANS" button on thr keypad, then the earpiece and microphone were inside the handset just like a regular telephone. Calls placed outside your own home area were called Roaming, which generated extra charges, sort of like landline long distance! If you were inclined to take frequent trips out of town to places where you would place numerous calls, your next month's bill could be a monster! 😲
A "hands free" option was available, by installing a separate tiny microphone that reached up to and clipped onto the underside of the visor on the drivers side, with a small remote speaker unit under the dash. As an employee, I managed to get myself this whole setup in a recently traded-in, top of the current line "Novatel" brand unit for about 1/3 the price of a new one. The whole cost, including the installation, in my pretty blue 1984 Ford Escort station wagon with the fake wood panels down the side! It was the ultimate "Mom Mobile" - pre-minivan and SUV days!
The "Bag Phone" shown above, by Motorola, was the next big step up the ladder towards carry around convenience. All it really did was take the components of the hardwired installed "carphone" and put them in a very sturdy leather, or "faux leather" bag with a wide shoulderstrap, making it the first truly "Mobile phone" on the market. The cost was high enough that usually only doctors. contractors, lawyers, and the like found them easily affordable, and most could write the expense off of their taxes each year. There were certain features which had to be altered, such as the charging setup, since it was no longer wired into the automobile or truck systems to keep the battery charged, it needed to be done by hooking it up to the residential power the same way we do now.
Also the antenna required adjustments, since it was no longer running through the wiring setup inside and outside the glass windows. The biggest problem to get solved were increased calling areas, and the only way to fix the areas where calls could be made was to increase the number and placement of the antennas on the towers on the ground, and on tall _t and other structures. Once this was done, the network increased exponentialy.
Disabled switchboard operator. Panasonic headquarters. Beijing. China.
The use of this image is restricted by the ILO and subject to authorization. If you wish to use this photo, please send a request to multimedia@ilo.org specifying the reference number, its intended use, the media you represent, your postal address, email and phone number.
Credit: Crozet M. / ILO
Date : 2007-08
Country : China
ILO PHOTO reference ILO photo e5327
Disabled switchboard operators. Panasonic headquarters. Beijing. China.
The use of this image is restricted by the ILO and subject to authorization. If you wish to use this photo, please send a request to multimedia@ilo.org specifying the reference number, its intended use, the media you represent, your postal address, email and phone number.
Credit: Crozet M. / ILO
Date : 2007-08
Country : China
ILO PHOTO reference ILO photo e5329
Ok, it's not really a switchboard, it's a control panel for some analogue stage lighting. Crappy photo, blame the camera phone.
File name: 08_06_025420
Title: Switchboard operators
Creator/Contributor: Jones, Leslie, 1886-1967 (photographer)
Date created: 1934 - 1956 (approximate)
Physical description: 1 negative : film, black & white ; 4 x 5 in.
Genre: Film negatives; Portrait photographs
Subject: Telephone operators; Switchboards
Notes: Title from information provided by Leslie Jones or the Boston Public Library on the negative or negative sleeve.; Date supplied by cataloger.
Collection: Leslie Jones Collection
Location: Boston Public Library, Print Department
Rights: Copyright Leslie Jones.
Preferred credit: Courtesy of the Boston Public Library, Leslie Jones Collection.