HISTORY OF THE TELEPHONE & DEVELOPMENT OF THE BELL SYSTEM BELL TELEPHONE PROMO FILM 52634

[@rtwice93555]

My mother worked for the local PacBell office when we were kids (1960s to early 70s). Something she learned and shared with us reminds me how disaster can speed up technology. The Kern County earthquake of 1952 decimated the little town of Tehachapi, effectively cutting them off from the outside world. AT&T came in and temporarily restored phone service. However, instead of rebuilding the Tehachapi switching station the way it was, AT&T upgraded it to a direct dial system. This made the little mountain town of Tehachapi one of the first cities in California to have direct dialing while most everyone else in California relied on operator assisted calls.

[@cesarferrari3385]

Thanks, it is great to know how these companies work.

[@luisreyes1963]

We have come a long way in Telephony from land lines to smartphones. 📱

[@Erzahler]

Thank you, PeriscopeFilm, very interesting. It's always good once in a while to go back and see how our technological world got started.

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[@James_Knott]

Years ago, I was a tech with a telecom company, though not Bell system. I recall some of those things, such as cross connect frames, step by step switching and more. I used to solder the cross connects on the "Christmas tree" blocks too. I'm old enough to remember when direct long distance dialing came in to our area and when touch tone phones appeared. BTW, there's an old "Dragnet" video (actually audio) from the Dragnet radio show. on KZbin, about Sgt. Joe Friday making a long distance call. It was made around the same time as this video.

[@ren7784]

I found it interesting about the use of coils and he realized that he needed only one to transmit. I also had no idea that the last T meant Telegraph.

[@jamesslick4790]

Wow, LOL I always assumed that EVERYONE knew AT&T was "American Telephone & Telegraph", Some folk called it "American Tel & Tel". I really must be getting old!

[@ScDMiller1]

The narrator sounds like the same guy that narrates the mystery detective tv shows that air on the court/ mystery channel that is part of a local channel that airs now days (like 6-3). Forgot the name of the channel though.

[@colettenasielski9568]

Wow Telephone This Came About

[@lestersabados1306]

In 2021, 4% of telephones are land lines. Why didn't at&t realize the future was wireless? Cable TV could be wireless also.

[@luisreyes1963]

Verizon's FiOS is practically wireless Cable TV.