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| Date: | 09 26 1984 |
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| Description: | A woman uses an early commercial computer network that allows travel agents to book their own flights without the use of a telephone. |
| Date: | 1883 |
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| Description: | Women switchboard operators at the sole Milwaukee telephone exchange. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Women work on nine-place telephone switchboard that served 1,145 single-line flat-rate telephones originating 10 calls per day, on average. |
| Date: | 11 1954 |
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| Description: | Henry Anderson runs a switchboard on his 90th birthday, with his smoking paraphernalia and a photograph of him at the switchboard on a table nearby. |
| Date: | 04 14 1923 |
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| Description: | An employee operates an International Model G or 61 truck with Mead-Morrison under-slung winch and derrier equipment for the Lowell Electric Lighting Compa... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | A caravan of trucks en route from International Harvester's Akron Works factory in Ohio to Chicago is traveling down a rural road lined with telephone pole... |
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| Description: | Studio head and shoulders portrait of Walter S. Gifford of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T). |
| Date: | 11 1980 |
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| Description: | A telephone pole emerges from a dirt mound and casts a shadow across the land. Trees and a water tower can be seen in the distance. Bible Camp Road. |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Original caption reads: "Marie McCaddin, New York branch telephone operator." Overhead view of woman sitting at a switchboard. |
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| Description: | The disconnection sways, rings out the moving targets racing with the mind in mathematic sound that vanish in the distance and then appear again a... |
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| Description: | Far out The last report on peace to reach us here was neither a promise nor easy Faith but the hardest of all, the waiting for never an... |
| Date: | 11 1961 |
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| Description: | Telephone pole among marsh grasses and bare birch trees near the Spring Green Bridge. |
| Date: | 1962 |
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| Description: | A technician prepares the ends of cable wires in the Telstar satellite. |
| Date: | 1962 |
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| Description: | An illustration of the Bell System's earth station showing some of its functional uses with the Telstar communications satellite. |
| Date: | 1962 |
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| Description: | A cutaway drawing of the Bell System's experimental Telstar communications satellite. |
| Date: | 1962 |
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| Description: | A Telstar test satellite mated to the third stage of Delta launch vehicle. |
| Date: | 08 1961 |
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| Description: | Members of the Senate Commerce Communications Subcommittee stand with a model of the Telstar satellite. A man holds a piece of the model and is pointing sk... |
| Date: | 1962 |
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| Description: | A group of men look at a model of the Telstar with Newton Minow. |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | A Serbian schoolhouse is being transformed into a telephone station during the war. |
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