Telephone History: First Transcontinental Phone Call | Documentary | 1940

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[@Sandor68]

I was just watching this on my smart phone and couldn't believe how far we have come in 100 years! Truly amazing!!!

[@GoVamentCheese-s9z]

Sandor Alex Fazekas I was thinking and doing the same thing.... This is amazing

[@NickGold]

Not even a hundred years

[@tmpqtyutmpqty4733]

Not much. Most was just improving what they did.

[@nikolai6489]

@@NickGoldFirst successful telephone call was 1896 or 76 so it had been

[@ecospider5]

And then they started figuring out electronic switching. Great historical video.

[@sanadora_místika]

This documentary is a treasure!!! not only by its priceless content but for the amazing production and immaculate editing! Simply mesmerizing ❤ Thank you for sharing it🙏

[@TheMindMotion]

The telegraph was essentially our text message. Great video!

[@shibolinemress8913]

We hear a lot about the completion of the first transcontinental railroad, but in my experience very little about the first transcontinental phone line. Thanks so much for posting this wonderful historical documentary!

[@TheRadar758]

Amazing. I bet these guys never even imagined the idea of satellite communication. Very good insight into what people thought of telephone communication and what a big deal it was.

[@HansDunkelberg1]

You even see clearer in what world you live, still today. With the equipment of those years a phone call over a thousand miles would still be the same feat it was then. Laws of nature stay the same. Such a documentary can emphatically warn us of the dangers of nature which will persist for all time.

[@kfl611]

I like the lights on the 'west street' room. Of course the phones are super too !

[@andyblackpool]

Fascinating and amazing how far we have progressed relatively recently. If you could bring these guys forward 80 years to see how we communicate now with tiny hand held wire free mobile phones they'd think it was magic (hey it IS magic!)

[@trackpackgt877]

Crazy to think I'm watching the history of telephones on a device that is not only a telephone but a mini computer TV and a thousand other things even when I was a kid if you would have told me we would have little computers in our pockets and you could be able to search anything you could ever imagine I wouldn't have believed you I was the last generation to grow up before pocket cell phones

[@robandrews4815]

In 1962 I was 12- years-old. And I saw something awesome. I was the transmission of the first black & white picture across the Atlantic. Via Telestar satellite. The Eiffel Tower on half the screen, and the Los Angeles city hall on the other half. Then 7 years later, live color pictures from the moon. And now I can communicate to many youtubers all at once. I wonder what's next. I've heard stories about brain implants. But I wouldn't want one!

[@officinartemusicale]

antonio meucci was the inventor of the telephone, he invented it 15 years before bell to help his sick wife upstairs. finally the American judgment of 2011 has given meucci the right invention

[@ecospider5]

Good to know. It also looks like Elisha Gray submitted a patent on the same day. But they registered Bell’s first.

[@gryphonshire]

I cannot remember when there wasn't a phone - be it a neighbor's, or on a party line, or finally our own private number. Then they went cordless, then in our pockets. Progress...? Thanks for this historical video.

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You are welcome gryphonshire :)

[@globalvendetta0014]

Could you imagine these men knew they're work would lead to us to having phones in our pockets, watching them, teach us a lesson. 😅

[@HATERED0001]

And now I'm watching this on my phone..:0 and now if I wanted I could talk too someone on the opposite side of the world without much effort...

[@Number4lead]

Now we have social media, a big setback for society.

[@ecospider5]

Social media is not the problem. The active research in making social media addictive is what has created the problem. I feel it should be illegal to purposefully make anything addictive.

[@MikeMentzee]

You and your mom are the setbacks lmao, if you can't use it than go f*ck yourself, a big setback for society.😂

[@BillKinsman]

What a pain in the ass! It is so much better now with the information superhighway. I remember working on networks in the 70's and 80's and into the 90's. I never imagined these kinds of wireless speeds!

[@georg2010cz]

I am wondering, what it was like when they said the wire "was noisy" without any amplification or virtually any electronics. I mean did you still get static noise on it?

[@cmercado317]

thank you , now that was mind blowing .

[@GaiusJuliusCaesar59]

Watching on my can and string

[@mariaanderson2560]

THX V MUCH FOR SHOWIMG VIDHEO

[@jvolstad]

How about higher frequency AM?

[@ecospider5]

The next steps. Electronic switching Making long distance digital Making phones cellular. Making phones 100% digital Making the phone system virtual You can pay for a purely analog phone line now but it is definitely a waist of the copper.

[@765kvline]

For a 1940 documentary, it has lost none of its charm and informational qualities. Good program. One of the few which explained loading and repeaters as well as transpositioning on open wire toll/exchange circuits.

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[@Megadave4life]

This phone will self distruct in 3 minutes and 15 seconds

[@uriellopez2130]

And to this day a wire to Chicago does not exist..

[@Number4lead]

And Chicago is still controlled by organized crime.

[@SuperGreatSphinx]

In the scope of human history, the telephone is a recent arrival, but there’s a Patron Saint for it. The celestial messenger, Gabriel the Archangel, has the honor of being the Patron Saint for the telephone. Derived from his role as a messenger of God, Gabriel is a great fit for the patronage of messages over long distances. His role in communicating to the Blessed Virgin Mary God’s desire for her to be the mother of Jesus is the most prominent example of Gabriel’s role as long distance messenger. Ironically, another Saint often invoked when there are phone troubles is St. Clare of Assisi, who was a cloistered nun before the age of wired or wireless anything. The gift of bilocation - the ability to be in two places at once - is attributed to St. Clare. Thus, her role as the Patron Saint of Television, and by extension the telephone and telegraph.

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[@TheGlassSword]

Future calling : what’s a wire?

[@NickGold]

Penguins On The Moon 🐧

[@angelfernandez3485]

Was that Hitler in the left 4:14

[@titanicbigship]

I think it is

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❤

[@RENZEENO]

Something tells me

[@whitneyschuster2439]

this narrator sounds like he's rock fucking hard through alla this 😂

[@davidzweiban5549]

I didn't know Bell was gay. First social media porno message 1876: Bell calls his Male assistant and tells him "I want you". Wow

[@TheAkaluna]

what did she say that women today using Skype :)

[@pumpkin91ful]

Meucci.

[@ecospider5]

Elisha Gray

[@SuperAWaC]

propaganda by ma bell, haha