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Drivewyze is the leading provider of mobility-based weigh station bypass solutions, and its integration with Switchboard provides all-in-one ELD and weigh station bypass convenience.
A manual phone switchboard from the early 20th century. I find it humbling to think that someone sat in front of a device similar to this that was replaced by one of the large carrier phone switches I've worked on. These people could handle maybe a few dozen calls where one of the Nortel switches could handle millions.
This is a photo of the new ZURB Headquarters a day before demolition. The entire renovation project will take 18 weeks.
ZURB is a close-knit team of product designers that help companies design better websites, services and online products.(www.zurb.com).
I like these phones better than the cell phone I have now. It's just for contacting people and not all the extra crap with a GPS locator to tell anyone in authority exactly where you are on the planet at all times.
Electric switchboard
Tivoli Theater
Downers Grove, Illinois
Tivoli Theater tour organized by the Dowers Grove Historical Society.
Telephone central office building: Okeechobee, Florida. A mural depicts their first telephone operator, Byrd Sizemore and their first telephone installer, T.A. Sizemore.
The switchboard that Ms. Sizemore is depicted operating is an artistic interpretation and is not an accurate rendering of what a real switchboard actually looked like. However, the mural also depicts the pole-climbing Mr. Sizemore as a dwarf, which could possibly be true.
This is the Gunter Hotel's original switchboard. It was in service from 1909 to 1979.
The Gunter Hotel was built in 1909 on the site of the earlier Mahncke Hotel to the design of Ernestt Russell of the St. Louis firm Mauran, Russell & Garden. The eight-story, 301-room hotel was built by the San Antonio Hotel Company and named for Jot Gunter, a local rancher and real estate developer who was one of its financiers. The Baker Hotel Company purchased the hotel in 1924 and added a three story addition designed by architect Herbert Green. Restored in the 1980's, it was renamed the Radisson Gunter Hotel and then the Sheraton Gunter Hotel. Sold in 1996, it became in the Camberley Gunter, before being sold and once again becoming the Sheraton Gunter Hotel.
The insurance company United Services Automobile Association was formed based on a meeting of twenty five United States Army Officers on June 22, 1922 at the Gunter Hotel to discuss the procurement of reliable and economical auto insurance.
On November 23, 1936, Room 414 of the Gunter was the scene of a historic recording session by blues artist Robert Johnson. Talent scout H. C. Speir had arranged the session with Brunswick Records who set up a temporary studio in the hotel where Johnson recorded a number of songs including the blues classic Sweet Home Chicago.
National Register #06001233 (2007)
Looking south along the western side of the square.
"Malé náměstí (also Malý rynek or Malý ryneček in olden times, Kleiner Ring in German) is a triangular- shaped square in Prague's Old Town, in the immediate vicinity of Old Town Square and Franz Kafka Square.
The square is surrounded by exhibition houses, which are mostly cultural monuments. Among them, Rott's house No. 142 on the west side stands out the most, where there used to be a well-known ironworks. The eastern side of the square is lined with an archway. In the middle stands an exhibition fountain with a forged Renaissance lattice. Its reconstruction was carried out between 1877 and 1878 by locksmith Jindřich Duffé.
In 1882, the first telephone switchboard in Prague was set up in the so-called Richter's House (U Modrého jelena) No. 459; it was in operation until 1902. In 1887, the terminus of the first line of the Prague Pipeline Post was established here. The house was built on the site of several older houses, one of which, called "U Mouřenina", had a pharmacy in the second half of the 14th century by the Florentine apothecary Augustin, owner of the garden on Slup.
Other houses also have their house signs (At the White Lion, At the Golden Lily, At the Black Hobby). On the south side there is a house called In Paradise or U anděla - No. 144/1, in which the imperial apothecary Angelo of Florence, the owner of the "Andělská zahrady" in Jindřišská street, had a pharmacy as early as 1374.
The former Royal Road from the Old Town towards Prague Castle also passes through Malá náměstí.
The Old Town of Prague (Czech: Staré Město pražské, German: Prager Altstadt) is a medieval settlement of Prague, Czech Republic. It was separated from the outside by a semi-circular moat and wall, connected to the Vltava river at both of its ends. The moat is now covered up by the streets (from north to south-west) Revoluční, Na Příkopě, and Národní—which remain the official boundary of the cadastral community of Old Town. It is now part of Prague 1.
Notable places in the Old Town include Old Town Square and Astronomical Clock. The Old Town is surrounded by the New Town of Prague. Across the river Vltava connected by the Charles Bridge is the Lesser Town of Prague (Czech: Malá Strana). The former Jewish Town (Josefov) is located in the northwest corner of Old Town heading towards the Vltava.
Prague (/ˈprɑːɡ/ PRAHG; Czech: Praha [ˈpraɦa]; German: Prag [pʁaːk]; Latin: Praga) is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic and the historical capital of Bohemia. On the Vltava river, Prague is home to about 1.3 million people. The city has a temperate oceanic climate, with relatively warm summers and chilly winters.
Prague is a political, cultural, and economic hub of central Europe, with a rich history and Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque architectures. It was the capital of the Kingdom of Bohemia and residence of several Holy Roman Emperors, most notably Charles IV (r. 1346–1378) and Rudolf II (r. 1575–1611).
It was an important city to the Habsburg monarchy and Austro-Hungarian Empire. The city played major roles in the Bohemian and the Protestant Reformations, the Thirty Years' War and in 20th-century history as the capital of Czechoslovakia between the World Wars and the post-war Communist era.
Prague is home to a number of well-known cultural attractions, many of which survived the violence and destruction of 20th-century Europe. Main attractions include Prague Castle, Charles Bridge, Old Town Square with the Prague astronomical clock, the Jewish Quarter, Petřín hill and Vyšehrad. Since 1992, the historic center of Prague has been included in the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites.
The city has more than ten major museums, along with numerous theatres, galleries, cinemas, and other historical exhibits. An extensive modern public transportation system connects the city. It is home to a wide range of public and private schools, including Charles University in Prague, the oldest university in Central Europe.
Prague is classified as a "Alpha-" global city according to GaWC studies. In 2019, the city was ranked as 69th most livable city in the world by Mercer. In the same year, the PICSA Index ranked the city as 13th most livable city in the world. Its rich history makes it a popular tourist destination and as of 2017, the city receives more than 8.5 million international visitors annually. In 2017, Prague was listed as the fifth most visited European city after London, Paris, Rome, and Istanbul.
Bohemia (Latin Bohemia, German Böhmen, Polish Czechy) is a region in the west of the Czech Republic. Previously, as a kingdom, they were the center of the Czech Crown. The root of the word Czech probably corresponds to the meaning of man. The Latin equivalent of Bohemia, originally Boiohaemum (literally "land of Battles"), which over time also influenced the names in other languages, is derived from the Celtic tribe of the Boios, who lived in this area from the 4th to the 1st century BC Bohemia on it borders Germany in the west, Austria in the south, Moravia in the east and Poland in the north. Geographically, they are bounded from the north, west and south by a chain of mountains, the highest of which are the Krkonoše Mountains, in which the highest mountain of Bohemia, Sněžka, is also located. The most important rivers are the Elbe and the Vltava, with the fertile Polabean Plain extending around the Elbe. The capital and largest city of Bohemia is Prague, other important cities include, for example, Pilsen, Karlovy Vary, Kladno, Ústí nad Labem, Liberec, Hradec Králové, Pardubice and České Budějovice, Jihlava also lies partly on the historical territory of Bohemia." - info from Wikipedia.
Summer 2019 I did a solo cycling tour across Europe through 12 countries over the course of 3 months. I began my adventure in Edinburgh, Scotland and finished in Florence, Italy cycling 8,816 km. During my trip I took 47,000 photos.
Now on Instagram.
Eric Woods is the CEO and founder of Switchboard, which uses mobile phones to create nationwide networks of health workers in developing countries. Switchboard partners with mobile operators to provide health workers with free nationwide calling, a nationwide health worker registry and access to information via bulk text messaging. Having already linked all doctors in both Ghana and Liberia, Switchboard will next connect health workers at all levels throughout Tanzania, working toward the vision of a collaborative network of health advice, referrals and improved care in places where access is most challenging.
More: www.switchboard.org/
Eric Woods is the CEO and founder of Switchboard, which uses mobile phones to create nationwide networks of health workers in developing countries. Switchboard partners with mobile operators to provide health workers with free nationwide calling, a nationwide health worker registry and access to information via bulk text messaging. Having already linked all doctors in both Ghana and Liberia, Switchboard will next connect health workers at all levels throughout Tanzania, working toward the vision of a collaborative network of health advice, referrals and improved care in places where access is most challenging.
My grandmother (in the background, holding the big plug) at her job as a telephone switchboard operator at San Jose Community College, ca 1976.
Switchboard for a smart house project. Two power supplies, controller boards, dimmer board, zero crossing detector, darlington outputs at 24V, optocoupled inputs. All communication between controller boards and the computer link are RS-485. RF link to some areas will be implemented too.
Heaven is a switchboard that you want to fight
hmmm so i'm guessing this sort of this has been done millions of times before, but whatevs
Ohio State Highway Patrol - 1:43 Diecast Model done by First Response Replicas.
Broken antenna on Driver Side.
Lightbar is a different Model than the ones being used by the Patrol at this time.
Inside View featuring Computer, Radio, Dash, Siren/Lights Switchboard, Radar, Camera.
Despite having a modern telephone at Maralinga, I had to learn how to use this old switchboard. There were three lines connected to it. The primary line was to the gate on the Watson Road.
One evening, we received an emergency call from the gate. Two teachers and a nurse had driven up from the south to visit the nearby Aborigine camp. There, they found one of the women had spilled a billy-full of boiling water on her leg. After doing what they could for her, they loaded her into their car and brought her to us. They had already been in touch with the RFDS, so we helped to make the patient comfortable in one of our rooms, tuned the radio to the RFDS frequency, then made sandwiches and coffee for the nurse and teachers. The plane was coming from Port Augusta. It would be a while before it arrived.
Not long after leaving Port Augusta, the pilot called us to say his compass was playing up. We assured him that the Village was lit like a beacon and promised to have the airstrip lit as well. After a few more instructions from the pilot, Phil and I went down to the airstrip.
We kept diesel lanterns on the airstrip, spaced at about 90 metres apart along either side. These were for exactly this situation: a night-time landing. They allowed the pilot to gauge his height. Fortunately, we had checked fuel levels in them a week earlier. With all the lanterns lit, Phil returned to the Village to collect the patient, and I positioned myself at one end of the airstrip. My job was to use the Troopy’s headlights to indicate wind direction.
A half hour later, the plane touched down. Carefully, the patient was loaded onto it. Then they were away, returning to Port Augusta and proper medical care.
Too soon after, the nurse and teachers left us and Maralinga resumed its usual quiet existence.
“Beer, Phil?”
Backstory: So on the Thursday before Working Weekend the Switchboard students go together to brainstorm what they wanted to plan for the big day. Their idea was to dress Brent '14 up as Gumby; hand out ringpops and pub mix; and ask students and alumni "What can you teach Gumby?" and then pin these answers onto Gumby. So that's what they did.
Huge props to Leah, Martha, Brent, Rebecca, Paul, Kieran and Alex for pulling this crazy and delightful idea off.
Here's the incredible list of things Reedies can teach:
President John Kroger: About Heidegger's Sein und Zeit
Amy Bogran '89: "How to do your taxes"
Doug Kerns (Reed Parent): "The beautiful and simple dance of electrons in silicon"
Anand Panchal '13: Hindi/Gujarati
Derek Owen '97: "How to play the first few bars of Carmina Burana on the ukulele"
Will '13" "How to love"
Anna Fimmel '16: "All about neurons"
Kristen Biers-Jones '80: "How to take a blood pressure"
Sierra: "How to long board and power slide"
Ulrich Loft '94: German, cardiology
Daniel Baggott '95: software
Karen Silbert '13: Brain surgery (not)
Anonymous: explosives
Thomas Burns '98: "How to apply for a Fulbright"
John Cushing '67: "How to play the penny whistle"
Robert Smith '89: "How to foxtrot"
Zach Brown '13: YOLO
Mark Chen '95: "How to scrounge Mt. Rushmore Visitor Center successfully"
Jennifer Jordan '89: "How to start up"
Frida Cruz: "How to make a dream machine"
The Pay Phone has been hanging on the wall in the hallway for 17 years, and I had the other old phone related parts in a box in the basement. Today I decided to trade them out.
The candlestick phone is from the 1890s through 1920, when it had its last upgrade to a dial phone.
Underneath that, is an office switch board for a 5 phone system from Downey, California from approximately 1925-30, and below that is a 4 line rural switchboard from a very small exchange.
And to ring the bell at the top of the stack, is a magneto at the bottom.
Mabel Webb Parker working the board November 27, 1965. Photo by Tommy Estridge. (original photo has been donated to the Public Library of Charlotte - Mecklenburg Co., NC)
At HQ Fire Station, Colchester Road, Ipswich, 1963. Jessy Wright on switchboard duty.
These photographs depict the life of the fire service in the town and neighbouring areas. Retired Ipswich fireman John Harvey bought four of Billy Griss's photo albums – he was a former fire service colleague and good amateur photographer. The photographs are annotated from the albums, supplemented by John’s memories.
(Work began to demolish fire station in July 2012 having closed in the previous October when new premises were opened in Ransomes Europark - see Awards Album 2012. Plans to build sixty homes on the site were soon fulfilled.)
Telephone central office building: Okeechobee, Florida. A mural depicts their first telephone installer, T.A. Sizemore.
The switchboard that Ms. Sizemore is depicted operating is an artistic interpretation and is not an accurate rendering of what a real switchboard actually looked like. However, the mural also depicts the pole-climbing Mr. Sizemore as a dwarf, which could possibly be true.