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On This Day in Telephone History May 7TH 1963 Telstar 2 placed in orbit to learn further how to overcome the effects of radiation and extend the useful life of communications satellites in space. TELSTAR 2 was essentially identical to the TELSTAR 1 satellite. Telstar 2 differed from Telstar 1 by employing provisions for scientific … Read more
On This Day in Telephone History May 6TH 1915 Opening of transcontinental telephone service between New York and Los Angeles.
On This Day in Telephone History May 5TH 1940 War Games in Gulf States Test Availability of the Bell System. Remember Us Today
Alexander Graham Bell conceived of using varying resistance in a wire conducting electric current to create a varying current amplitude. Bell wrote in a letter to Gardiner Greene Hubbard: “a continuous current of electricity passed through a vibrating wire should meet with varying resistance, and hence a pulsatory action should be induced in the current” … Read more
Thomas Edison Granted Patent for the Carbon Transmitter. Patent number 474,230 was granted to Thomas Edison for a carbon transmitter after a 15-year delay because of litigation. Edison originally filed for the patent on April 27, 1877.
Improved Radiotelephone service to ships at sea was initiated when the liner Queen Elizabeth II began her maiden transatlantic voyage. New equipment substantially eliminated fading and interference in circuits used for ship-to-shore communications.
The First Telephone Exchange in Ohio. The City And Suburban Association of Northern Kentucky entered into agreement with the American Bell Company of Boston for inter-territorial telephone service becoming the first telephone exchange in Ohio.
First Telephones Rented For Business Use on a Private Line. Roswell C. Downer rented the First Telephones for business use on a private line between Boston and Somerville. From Downer’s home, at 170 Central St., Somerville, to the office of Stone & Downer, Bankers, 28 State St., Boston (3 miles)
Enrico Caruso sang over the transcontinental telephone line from Atlanta, GA to San Francisco. At 4:00 a.m. on April 30, 1916, a near-capacity audience at the Tivoli listened to Enrico Caruso sing in Atlanta, Georgia, over Pacific and American Bell Telephone long-distance lines at the San Francisco Press Club’s “Ten Years After” commemoration of the … Read more
Telephone Connection Between Britain and Australia went into Service.