THE object of the automatic telephone exchange is to dispense with the assistance of a third party in making connection between two subscribers. Those whp are at all familiar with the complexity of ...

A large hacker camp such as EMF 2024 always brings unexpected delights, and one of those could be found in the Null Sector cyberpunk zone: a fully functional Strowger mechanical telephone exchange.

1876: Alexander Graham Bell invents and receives patents for his “electrical speech machine,” the telephone. (Several other inventors create similar technology around the same time, but Bell gets ...

Rathlin Islanders no longer need operator assistance when making a phone call. In 1969 John Stonehouse then Postmaster General made a promise to the people of Rathlin that the island would get an ...

Over 80 percent of Azerbaijani automatic telephone exchanges have been overhauled and have been made electronic, Azerbaijani Deputy Communication Minister Elmir Valizade said. "The overhaul is going ...

This is the WHICH, the Wolverhampton Instrument for Teaching Computing from Harwell. It is the oldest functioning digital computer and thanks to a lengthy restoration process you can go and see it in ...

AT an ordinary or manual telephone exchange, as is generally known, the subscribers' lines terminate on “jacks,” and are put through to each other by means of “plugs” and flexible conductors. The ...