Dublin Core
Title
Western Electric Company multiple switchboard
Description
In order to handle increasing numbers of telephone calls, switchboards like this model from the 1880s employed operators to make connections between the parties. (Click on the image for diagrams illustrating the difference between single-line wires and a switched circuit.)
Creator
Poole, J[oseph]
Date
1891
Contributor
Cooper, Ken
Source
J[oseph] Poole, "Practical Telephone Handbook and Guide to the Telephone Exchange" (London: Whittaker, 1891), p. 148
Format
jpeg, 454 KB
Still Image Item Type Metadata
Original Format
Book lithograph