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From opening in 1978 motorists using the West Gate Bridge were charged a toll, that was paid at the toll booths at the city end of the bridge, at the current location of the West Gate service centres. The administration building was retained by VicRoads, until it was sold to property developer MAB Corporation in 2010 and then demolished.
Disused underground station in Westminster that closed in 1932 but which at the start of the Second World War was converted into a bunker and operations centre. As such it was used by Winston Churchill until the Cabinet War Rooms were completed and throughout the conflict it was also a base for the Railway Executive Committee and the military.
Down Street,
Westminster,
London,
England
Creator: Eberhardt, C. F.
Description: Telephone switchboard (two operators).
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The ABC's main telephone switchboard at 69 Market Street (from 1932) was moved to Broadcast House, 264 Pitt Street in 1943. It was in use until November, 1965.
ABC Reference ID: abc.net.au/photo/DP040444
This is the switchboard used by the telephone operator who risked and lost her life trying to warn others of the impending 1908 flood. Read more here:
www.folsomvillage.com/FolsomAreaHistory.html#FolsomMuseum...
Switchboard operators would plug jacks to connect calls outside calls to inside lines -- the lights would go on when the line was in use. Once the light went off, the operator would then disconnect the jack. At the Mid-Missouri Museum of Independent Telephone Pioneers.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Louis
St. Louis is the second-largest city in Missouri, United States. It is located near the confluence of the Mississippi and the Missouri Rivers. In 2020, the city proper had a population of 301,578, while its bi-state metropolitan area, which extends into Illinois, had an estimated population of over 2.8 million, making it the largest metropolitan area in Missouri and the second-largest in Illinois.
Before European settlement, the area was a regional center of Native American Mississippian culture. St. Louis was founded on February 14, 1764, by French fur traders Gilbert Antoine de St. Maxent, Pierre Laclède and Auguste Chouteau, who named it for king Louis IX of France, and it quickly became the regional center of the old Illinois Country. In 1764, following France's defeat in the Seven Years' War, the area was ceded to Spain. In 1800, it was retroceded to France, which sold it three years later to the United States as part of the Louisiana Purchase; the city was then the point of embarkation for the Corps of Discovery on the Lewis and Clark Expedition. In the 19th century, St. Louis became a major port on the Mississippi River; from 1870 until the 1920 census, it was the fourth-largest city in the country. It separated from St. Louis County in 1877, becoming an independent city and limiting its political boundaries. In 1904, it hosted the Louisiana Purchase Exposition and the Summer Olympics.
A global city with a metropolitan GDP of more than $160 billion in 2017, metropolitan St. Louis has a diverse economy with strengths in the service, manufacturing, trade, transportation, and tourism industries. It is home to eight Fortune 500 companies. Major companies headquartered or with significant operations in the city include Ameren Corporation, Peabody Energy, Nestlé Purina PetCare, Anheuser-Busch, Wells Fargo Advisors, Stifel Financial, Spire, Inc., MilliporeSigma, FleishmanHillard, Square, Inc., Anthem BlueCross and Blue Shield, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, Centene Corporation, and Express Scripts.
Major research universities include Washington University in St. Louis, Saint Louis University and University of Missouri–St. Louis. The Washington University Medical Center in the Central West End neighborhood hosts an agglomeration of medical and pharmaceutical institutions, including Barnes-Jewish Hospital.
St. Louis has four professional sports teams: the St. Louis Cardinals of Major League Baseball, the St. Louis Blues of the National Hockey League, St. Louis City SC of Major League Soccer, and the St. Louis BattleHawks of the XFL. Among the city's notable sights is the 630-foot (192 m) Gateway Arch in Downtown St. Louis, the St. Louis Zoo, the Missouri Botanical Garden, the St. Louis Art Museum, and Bellefontaine Cemetery and Arboretum.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson_Barracks_Military_Post
The Jefferson Barracks Military Post is located on the Mississippi River at Lemay, Missouri, south of St. Louis. It was an important and active U.S. Army installation from 1826 through 1946. It is the oldest operating U.S. military installation west of the Mississippi River, and it is now used as a base for the Army and Air National Guard. A Veterans Affairs healthcare system campus is located on the southern portion of the base and is also the headquarters for the Veterans Canteen Service.
Source: www.jbtelmuseum.org/
The Jefferson Barracks Telephone Museum is housed in a beautifully restored 1896 building and features an extensive collection of telephones, telephone-related equipment and memorabilia. The building is on the National Register of Historic Places and is located in the 426-acre historic Jefferson Barracks Park, a 15 minute drive south of downtown St. Louis.
Employees and retirees from Southwestern Bell, SBC, AT&T, members of the Telecom Pioneers, a non-profit 501(c)(3) telephone company employee service organization, and their families and friends spent over 66,500 hours in repairing and renovating the building.
The self-guided, accessible history museum has many hands-on, educational and fun displays.
Besides its extensive collection of telephones manufactured from the late 1800s through 2012, the Jefferson Barracks Telephone Museum also contains:
- A Central Office Step Switch.
- Operator switchboards from the 1920s and 1960s.
- Military telephones from WWI through the Gulf War.
- Hundreds of pieces of telephone-related equipment and tools.
- A telephone pole complete with climbing equipment.
- Hundreds of pieces of telephone-related memorabilia from the 1880s through the 2000s.
- A large variety of novelty telephones.
- A statue of Alexander Graham Bell and replicas of his 1876 Liquid Transmitter and 1877 First Commercial Telephone.
The museum is located all on one floor and there is a wheelchair entrance and ramp on the east side of the building. Accessible parking and an accessible restroom is also available. Chairs are also located throughout the museum in the event a short break is needed.
Guided tours are available for groups of 10 or more and should be scheduled at least two weeks before the tour.
Additional Foreign Language Tags:
(United States) "الولايات المتحدة" "Vereinigte Staaten" "アメリカ" "美国" "미국" "Estados Unidos" "États-Unis"
(Missouri) "ميزوري" "密苏里州" "मिसौरी" "ミズーリ" "미주리" "Миссури"
(St. Louis) "سانت لويس" "圣路易斯" "संत लुई" "セントルイス" "세인트루이스" "святой Луи"
An old fashioned telephone switchboard on display in the lobby of the Best Western Seaport Inn in New York City.
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Iron Knob is a town in South Australia on the Eyre Highway across Eyre Peninsula. At the 2006 census, Iron Knob and the surrounding area had a population of 199. The town obtained its name from its proximity to large deposits of iron ore, most notably Iron Monarch which outcropped prominently from the relatively flat, surrounding landscape.
Iron ore was first mined by the Broken Hill Proprietary Company at Iron Knob for use as flux in lead smelters at Port Pirie. The iron ore proved to be of such high quality (upwards of 60% purity) that it led to the development of the Australian steel industry. It supplied iron to Newcastle for and steel works established at Newcastle and Port Kembla in the 1910s and 1920s and Whyalla in the 1930s. The iron ore was transported by railway to Whyalla where it was either smelted or dispatched by sea.
21% of the steel required for the construction of the Sydney Harbor Bridge was quarried at Iron Knob and smelted at Port Kembla, New South Wales. The remaining 79% was imported from England.
In the 1920s, iron ore from Iron Knob was exported to Holland (now the Netherlands) and the United States of America. Prior to World War II, iron ore from Iron Knob was also exported to Japan. In the financial year 1935-36, 291,961 tonnes of ore from Iron Knob was shipped there via the seaport of Whyalla.
This became a matter of some controversy in the late 1930s due in part to Australia's known reserves at the time being limited to Iron Knob and Yampi Sound in Western Australia. Japan was also considered an 'aggressor' nation following acts of war against China in 1937. Waterfront workers and seamen protested against the export of iron ore to Japan, leading to strikes and arrests. Iron ore from Iron Knob was also exported to America, Germany and Great Britain during the 1930s.
Additional deposits of iron ore were developed by the Broken Hill Proprietary Company further south along the Middleback Range, including Iron Princess, Iron Prince (1932), Iron Baron, Iron Knight, Iron Duchess and Iron Duke.
In 1937, output from the Middleback Range, mostly from Iron Monarch was estimated at 2 mtpa. In 1939, it was referred to in England as the highest grade deposit of iron ore known in the world. In 1943, the iron Knob deposit was still delivering an average ore great of 64 percent metallic content. In 1949, 99% of Australian demand for iron ore was met by supply from Iron Knob and associated mines in South Australia, having risen from 95% in 1943.
Quarrying for iron at Iron Knob and Iron Monarch ended in 1998. When the mine closed down in 1998, the town's population reduced to 200. Iron Knob was under threat of becoming a ghost town. However, due to rising prices of housing elsewhere, the town has attracted new residents seeking low cost residences. A home could be purchased for approximately A$35,000–70,000 and vacant land could be purchased for less than A$15,000.
In 2010, Onesteel (now Arrium Ltd) announced that it would return to Iron Knob to reopen the Iron Monarch mine. The Iron Monarch mine was prepared for reopening by Arrium Ltd in 2013. As of 2015, both Iron Monarch and Iron Duke continue to produce iron ore for export and for smelting at the Whyalla steelworks.
In the early days of mining at Iron Knob, ironstone was carted by oxen to Hummock Hill (now known as Whyalla). Approximately 300 tonnes was delivered in a good week. Construction of a private railway greatly increased transportation rates and by 1939, 9,000 tonnes of ore was delivered daily to Whyalla by rail. Later trains carried 2000 ton loads.
Ships operated by the then BHP company were similarly named Iron This and Iron That, some of which were built by the company at the Whyalla steelworks.
Panorama made up from 2 images of the BT Emergency Communication system designed to operate in the event of a Nuclear War. Located at Hack Green RGHQ (ROTOR station)
Goldfield Hotel Lobby - Goldfield, NV. Notice the telephone switchboard behind the desk. Looks like there is a vault in the back wall. Photo was shot through a dirty exterior window. The hotel has remained unoccupied since the end of World War II.
Goldfield, Nevada:
Goldfield is located at an elevation of 5,700 feet, and has a population of 270 rugged individuals.
Goldfield is an interesting and photogenic town. I spent a few hours there, and could have easily spent a day exploring the town.
Goldfield is almost dead, and has the feel and look of a ghost town. If Goldfield wasn't the county seat, it would probably be a ghost town. The weather was perfect – a brisk and sunny 49 degrees.
The discovery of gold made Goldfield a boomtown between 1903 and 1940. Goldfield's mines produced more than $86 million. Gold exploration still continues in the area.
Parts of the cult-classic 1971 car chase movie, Vanishing Point, were filmed in Goldfield, and it was the site of the fictitious radio station "KOW", and the DJ "Super-Soul". Goldfield also served as the fictional town of "Glory Hole" in the 1987 film Cherry 2000, and as the fictional California town in the 1998 film Desert Blue. The 2007 fictional film Ghosts of Goldfield is set in the Goldfield Hotel.
Salem, Massachusetts
May 1900
Photo by Malcomb Robb
SCPH 09-031
Citation: Nelson Dionne Salem History Collection,
Salem State University Archives and Special Collections, Salem, Massachusetts
Inside the smallest coffee shop. Switchboard has just a counter on one side of the arcade, and a bench inside a widow on the otherside - we had to move at one stage so they could get the ladder down to get to the stoage space above.
Construction of a Custom Data Center -Weeks 16 - 18: 1201 Comstock's main switchboard has been installed in its Electrical Room.
A sequence of photos of the progression in constructing a data center rapidly, in 26 weeks, at 1201 Comstock St, Santa Clara, CA. This data center facility was designed and constructed by Digital Realty Trust.
Title: Switchboard Operator
Date: 1938
Location: Peninsular Telephone Company, Lakeland, FL
Description: Lula Davis operates the company's information switchboard.
Collection: Dan Sanborn Photographs
ID: p0361
Link: cdm15809.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p15809coll...
Kim Wacome, a switchboard operator with Penn State Health Hampden Medical Center, helps out a caller at the Medical Center on Friday, Oct. 1, 2021.
Communications Center, East Wind I.
R-193 Corded Switchboard.
6B series armor.
TTSKO uniform.
CO appropriating Primas found hidden in switchboard.
Ecuador, provincia del Guayas, Guayaquil
Museo del Bombero Ecuatoriano Crnl. Félix Luque Plata
CENTRAL DE ALARMAS
The main switchboard room could connect 2800 external lines to 500 internal extensions. It was nammed 24 hours a day.
Title: Mattie Belle Carelock
Date: 1950 Oct.
Identifier: Hopewell UMWA Collection 170A
Format: 1 negative, safety film
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.
Repository: Library of Virginia, Visual Studies, 800 E. Broad St., Richmond, VA, 23219, USA, digitool1.lva.lib.va.us:8881/R
Refurbished photo of Switchboard at RAF South Ruislip - circa 1972.
www.ruisliponline.com/images/Switchboard Ruislip1.JPG
Military fortress Heldsberg. In the fire control place of the cannons. As museum for the public opened.
Wyandotte led the way Downriver in establishing telephone service in this area in the late 1800s. Here, a telephone switchboard operator - at the time they were staffed by young men - mans the console at the Cahalan building where Nanna's Kitchen stands today. (Don Gutz collection)
Title: Engine Room & Switch Board [sic] Texas City Refining Co., Tex City, Tex.
Alternative Title: [Engine Room and Switchboard, Texas City Refining Company, Texas City, Texas]
Creator: Unknown
Date: ca. 1907-1914
Part of: George W. Cook Dallas/Texas image collection
Series: Series 3: Photographs
Series 3, Subseries 3, Postcards
Series 3, Subseries 3d, RPPC, Texas
Place: Texas City, Galveston County, Texas
Description: Man standing next to a Harrisburg Foundry and Machine Works Fleming Steam Engine, Texas City Refining Company, Texas City, Texas.
Physical Description: 1 photographic print (postcard): gelatin silver; 9 x 14 cm
File: a2014_0020_3_3_d_0317_c_texascityengineroom.jpg
Rights: Please cite DeGolyer Library, Southern Methodist University when using this file. A high-resolution version of this file may be obtained for a fee.
For more information and to view the image in high resolution, see: digitalcollections.smu.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/gcd/...
Description: Main Switchboard.
Location: Jaffa, Palestine
Date: 1922-1923
Our Catalogue Reference: Part of CO 1069/731
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