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My child the merchant murmured as he stroked the anxious brow
No telephone connection where your mother lives at now
No telephone in heaven and a tear sprang in her eyes
I thought God had everything with him up in the sky
While I listened to my beloved Carter Family boxed-set "In the Shadow Of Clinch Mountain" and browsing through my unreleased pictures a miracle occured. Song and visual appeared the same moment and they fit perfectly.
In my area web, TV and phone come through the same cable, old telephone lines and switchboards became obsolet.
This Diesel Generator, together with the Aft Emergency Switchboard nearby, supplied emergency electricity to critical equipment.
Aboard the Battleship North Carolina, at Battleship Park, near Wilmington, North Carolina. I visited here the USS North Carolina (BB 55), a North Carolina-class battleship, now a museum ship. This battleship was launched in 1940, commissioned in 1941 and served in World War II in the Atlantic and Pacific theaters. She has been at this location as a museum ship since 1962. I visited this ship on April 13, 2018.
Dolly (5 July 1996 – 14 February 2003) was a female domestic sheep, and the first mammal to be cloned from an adult somatic cell, using the process of nuclear transfer. Dolly was cloned by Ian Wilmut, Keith Campbell and colleagues at the Roslin Institute and the biotechnology company PPL Therapeutics near Edinburgh in Scotland. The funding for Dolly's cloning was provided by PPL Therapeutics and the Ministry of Agriculture. Dolly was born on 5 July 1996 and she lived until the age of six, at which point she died from a progressive lung disease. She has been called "the world's most famous sheep" by sources including BBC News and Scientific American. The cell used as the donor for the cloning of Dolly was taken from a mammary gland, and the production of a healthy clone therefore proved that a cell taken from a specific part of the body could recreate a whole individual. On Dolly's name, Wilmut stated "Dolly is derived from a mammary gland cell and we couldn't think of a more impressive pair of glands than Dolly Parton's".
Dolly lived for her entire life at the Roslin Institute in Edinburgh. There she was bred with a Welsh Mountain ram and produced six lambs in total.
For more on Dolly visit:
www.nms.ac.uk/our_collections/highlights/dolly_the_sheep....
National Museum of Scotland
Chambers Street Edinburgh EH1 1JF
Main switchboard 0300 123 6789
www.nms.ac.uk/our_museums/national_museum.aspx
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Edinburgh, Scotland, UK United Kingdom
10-24-2012
This old switchboard decorates the office of one of my clients. They deal with communication systems. I think it's a very cool piece of old technology.
This Aft Emergency Switchboard, together with the Diesel Generator nearby, supplied emergency electricity to critical equipment.
Aboard the Battleship North Carolina, at Battleship Park, near Wilmington, North Carolina. I visited here the USS North Carolina (BB 55), a North Carolina-class battleship, now a museum ship. This battleship was launched in 1940, commissioned in 1941 and served in World War II in the Atlantic and Pacific theaters. She has been at this location as a museum ship since 1962. I visited this ship on April 13, 2018.
Ellery Thompson operated the Kaladar & Northern Telephone System located in Northbrook. When telephones went to dial-up in the mid-1960s this switchboard was no longer needed for the telephone service to operate. Ellery donated this switchboard to the Sunshine School - a school for developmentally challenged children located between Napanee and Odessa. The switchboard was to be used as a learning tool for the children. After the switchboard was of no longer use it was to be returned to Ellery and donated to the Pioneer Museum in Cloyne where it now resides.
Ellery purchased a smaller telephone system from James Vogen in Northbrook who was using the former general store in Northbrook (later Glady's Cup and Kettle) to house the equipment. Ellery rapidly expanded the system and offered telephone service to Flinton, Kaladar, Northbrook, Cloyne, Fernleigh, Harlowe and Ferguson's Corners (bottom of Eagle Hill). The Denbigh and Plevna telephone exchanges were purchased by Ellery later to further expand the service. During this expansion he employed many people including George Hawley as a technician.
Party lines were the norm. The more people on a single line, the more hum was generated in the call. Every 20 subscribers would have a 'jackknife switch' which would enable a caller to reach further afield. For instance, someone calling from Northbrook to Matawatchewan would need to first reach Mrs. Gregg in Vennachar who relayed the call to Denbigh. The Denbigh switchboard person would relay the call to Griffith and then finally to Mrs. McLaren in Matawatchewan. Oftentimes switchboard operators had the switches by their bed so they could transfer calls after hours. When the Northbrook switchboard was located in the former Liquor Store a bed was located close-by for the operator.
Part of the Ellery Thompson Collection
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Just inside this tunnel gateway is a very solid heavy door. This particular trip, the door was shut tight and locked. When I returned with my wife, the door was open so we pulled out our torch lights and braved the darkness, only to find it dead-ends in a suite of small rooms within the depths of the hillside.
Looking west away from the Old Town 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.
South Africa.
Eastern Cape
Graaff-Reinet
Formerly a Dutch Reformed Church parsonage it was built using mostly locally acquired material with Government funding in 1812 in the Cape Dutch H-style. High up on the gable is an hour glass with extended wings as a reminder that “time flies”.
wakefield, massachusetts
1957
switchboard operator, transitron
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Dolly (5 July 1996 – 14 February 2003) was a female domestic sheep, and the first mammal to be cloned from an adult somatic cell, using the process of nuclear transfer. Dolly was cloned by Ian Wilmut, Keith Campbell and colleagues at the Roslin Institute and the biotechnology company PPL Therapeutics near Edinburgh in Scotland. The funding for Dolly's cloning was provided by PPL Therapeutics and the Ministry of Agriculture. Dolly was born on 5 July 1996 and she lived until the age of six, at which point she died from a progressive lung disease. She has been called "the world's most famous sheep" by sources including BBC News and Scientific American. The cell used as the donor for the cloning of Dolly was taken from a mammary gland, and the production of a healthy clone therefore proved that a cell taken from a specific part of the body could recreate a whole individual. On Dolly's name, Wilmut stated "Dolly is derived from a mammary gland cell and we couldn't think of a more impressive pair of glands than Dolly Parton's".
Dolly lived for her entire life at the Roslin Institute in Edinburgh. There she was bred with a Welsh Mountain ram and produced six lambs in total.
For more on Dolly visit:
www.nms.ac.uk/our_collections/highlights/dolly_the_sheep....
National Museum of Scotland
Chambers Street Edinburgh EH1 1JF
Main switchboard 0300 123 6789
www.nms.ac.uk/our_museums/national_museum.aspx
Photo
Edinburgh, Scotland, UK United Kingdom
10-24-2012
This building caught my attention because of its odd proportions -- very narrow and several times deeper than it is wide. A plaque called it the Bandbox House and said it was built in 1830. From 1929 to 1954, it was Littleton's telephone office. "Hello, Central?"
The Town of Littleton website has a picture taken from the long side, making it look fairly normal.
www.littletonma.org/content/49/3594/83/254.aspx
Although I was originally surprised that phone calls were not yet automated in the early 50s, I guess I just have no clue. Here's a photo on Flickr of telephone switchboard operators in Seattle in 1952:
Electric switchboards of HELCZA facility control system
Elektrické rozvaděče řídícího systému zařízení HELCZA
Original Caption: Switchboard in the machine room.
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Members of the Washington Telephone Traffic Union leave work at 725 13th Street NW January 10, 1946 for a “continuous union meeting” that would last for eight days.
The 3,000 switchboard operators were fed up with rules like requiring a supervisor present before changing a headset from one ear to another or having to call a supervisor before taking an aspirin.
Mary Gannon led the local operators union from the time it was a company union in 1935 through militant strikes in the 1940s and up until 1950--after the Communications Workers of America was formed. She was one of the few women union leaders in the Washington, D.C. area at that time. Margaret Gilmore at the Bureau of Engraving was another.
She led as many as 200 strikes—most for an hour or two—during her career, including a one-day strike that disrupted White House communications during World War II. Many of the strikes were sympathy strikes helping other telephone unions around the country and helping to lay the basis for a national union.
She was in the late stages of pregnancy with her son Tommy during the six-week 1947 strike, and put in the long hours and picket duty required of a union leader. Her son was born near the end of the strike and Gannon returned after giving birth to the bargaining table to conclude the agreement that would end the strike.
She continued to work afterward, helping to form the Communications Workers of America later in the year.
Gannon said of her decision to resign at age 38 in 1950, “I was torn between two children, for I feel like the union was my child too. But in the end I felt like I must give more attention to Tommy.”
During her tenure, the telephone operators were known as “Gannon’s girls” by news reporters.
For more information and related images, see flic.kr/s/aHsmbnHJap
For a blog post on the Washington Telephone Traffic Union, see washingtonareaspark.com/2022/02/08/the-washington-telepho...
The photographer is unknown. The image is a Washington Daily News photograph courtesy of the D.C. Public Library Washington Star Collection © Washington Post.
Eastern Oregon Museum in Haines, along the Elkhorn Scenic Byway in Baker County Oregon.
The small town of Haines in the Baker Valley is just one of several picturesque small towns located along the Elkhorn Scenic Byway one of three scenic byways that intersect in Baker County.
visitors can explore the regions rich ranching and agricultural history at the Eastern Oregon Museum, and the Dick Camp Memorial Park which is home to some of the oldest buildings in Oregon.
Haines is also home to the annual Haines Stampede Rodeo every 4th of July.
The Haines Steak House is a favorite stop for skiers after a long day of skiing at Anthony Lakes Ski Area in the winter or exploring the byway in the summer. For more information about Haines and other communities along the Elkhorn Scenic Byway visit the Baker County Tourism Website at www.basecampbaker.com
A photo from the station opening booklet, September 1925, by kind permission of Laurence Blundell.
This switchboard survived until shortly before the closure of the station. It was impressive being built on polished slate panels.
The left hand section is the 500V DC board with in feeds from the two rotary converters and the DC section of the House Set. This was the largest section of the board as almost all of the auxiliary plant was DC powered.
The smaller right hand section of the switchboard is 415V AC fed from the 11kV board by transformers and the 250 KW alternator of the House Set.
In 1858 Colonial Architect Edward Angus Hamilton was instructed to design an Institute Building. The new building, in Victorian Renaissance style, was completed in July 1860. The official opening by Acting Governor Sir Charles Cooper, the chief justice, took place on 29 January 1861.
The Institute Building quickly became a focal point of Adelaide’s cultural life: 40 societies were affiliated with the South Australian Institute by 1867.
The South Australian Institute, was to comprise a Public Library and Museum, and, by means of public lectures, classes, and otherwise, to promote the general study and cultivation of all or any of the various branches or departments of art, science, literature and philosophy and to encourage and assist kindred societies. The library was required to provide free public access to a reading room on every day of the week except Sunday.
Books could be borrowed on the payment of a membership fee of 2s 6d and annual subscription of between £1 and £2.
The Adelaide Philosophical Society and School of Design were also housed in the building. The Institute was the only body in Adelaide providing public technical and further education. Although there were some private secondary colleges, the colony’s education system at that time did not go beyond primary school.
Standing alone on North Terrace, the Institute Building generated interest and admiration. Its central entrance hallway featured a grand staircase. The ground floor housed the circulating library, a large reading room with a raised platform at one end for lectures, a coffee room, an office for the Institute’s secretary and a boardroom. A central passageway led to the housekeeper’s apartment at the rear. On the first floor were three large rooms intended for classes and meetings of societies. Behind them a 21.3m long room designed by Hamilton for the art gallery and museum was lit by skylights fitted with rope-drawn blinds. Heating in winter came from fires in fireplaces decorated by carved timber surrounds.
In spite of the construction of other cultural buildings on North Terrace, the Institute Building was well used and cramped for space. Plans went ahead for extensive additions on the north side, including a separate two-storey caretaker’s residence facing Kintore Avenue. The extension was opened on 12 June 1907 by Governor Sir George Le Hunte.
The expanded Institute Building housed the remnant South Australian Institute, the Circulating Library, the Royal Society of South Australia, the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia (South Australian Branch) and the South Australian Society of Arts.
The museum collections and part of the library were moved from the Institute Building to the new Jervois Wing in 1882–1883, in anticipation of creating independent and growing cultural institutions. (The Jervois wing is now known as the Mortlock Wing of the State Library of South Australia.) The Art Gallery moved first to the Jervois Wing, then to the Exhibition Building, before occupying a building of its own. The School of Design moved to the Exhibition Building in 1890–1891, although it continued to be run by the Institute until taken over by the Education Department in 1909.
Since 1907 internal alterations and upgrades have been made to the building. The most significant of these was the conversion of the Royal Geographical Society’s rooms into a lecture theatre in 1965 after the society moved to the Jervois Wing. While the State Library controls and uses the building, various organisations have worked from it, including the Institutes Association of South Australia (1912–80), the Women’s Information Switchboard (1978–97), the Women’s Studies Resource Centre (1979–84), the History Trust of South Australia (1981–97) and the Friends of the State Library of South Australia (2007–). The Bradman Collection was exhibited in the building (1998–2008), before moving to its own museum at the Adelaide Oval.
The Institute Building continues to house and provide an important public exhibition venue for the South Australian Society of Arts. Its meeting rooms and the Anne and Basil Hetzel Lecture Theatre are widely used.
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