Today we created a short YouTube video of our 400-line Western Electric Step-by-Step Switch.
Tag: telephony
Jane has arrived
Jane has arrived; the Audichron speaking clock complete with Jane Barbe’s voice, has been safely delivered and set up as of 7/17/2016.
The short clip below shows “Jane” at a temporary location. Jane’s phone number will be published at a later date.
Photo Exhibit: One Bell System. It works. “One hundred Years of Telephony in America” 1876 – 1976
Photo Exhibit: One Bell System. It works. “One hundred Years of Telephony in America” 1876 – 1976.
We recently acquired a set of 81 AT&T Photo Center photos. We hope you will enjoy this Photo Exhibit
Picturephone Model II Demo Video
We had a working demonstration of two Picturephone Model II at the Southern California Telephone Collectors Show on Saturday, March 19, 2016.
The video shows two working examples of the Model II Picturephones. They were setup to show the picture they took on their own screen. In the future we hope to be able to connect them together and maybe even make an actual video call. We are very pleased that Chris Brawner got these working after so many years.
We apologize for the first few minutes of the video not being in focus but hope that you will enjoy this little video.
Photo source:
http://long-lines.net/tech-equip/Picturephone/BLR0569/picturephone.pdf
PDF of the May 1969 Bell Labs Record about the Western Electric PicturePhone Model II
Telephone service in color
A Kansas Southwestern Bell door tag that would be left by the telephone serviceman reads “When I return I shall be pleased to discuss adequate telephone service in color with you. How does one discuss telephone service in color? Apparently they know how to do that in Kansas.
Picturephone Model II Demo
We plan to have a working demonstration of a Picturephone Model II at the Southern California Telephone Collectors Show on Saturday, March 19.
Photo source:
http://long-lines.net/tech-equip/Picturephone/BLR0569/picturephone.pdf
PDF of the May 1969 Bell Labs Record about the Western Electric PicturePhone Model II
See you at the Southern California Telephone Collectors Show.
Click here for the Southern California Telephone Collectors Show info.
Click here for the show blog. There will be photos posted to the blog on the day of the show.
See you at the Southern California Telephone Collectors Show
Museum staff and volunteers are rebuilding the JKL Museum, lost in a devastating fire.
The Southern California Telephone Collectors Show on Saturday, March 19, is your opportunity to bring unique, rare, or unusual telephones and other telephone artifacts for the JKL staff to consider for purchase.
Donations are also appreciated as the museum is a 501(c)(3) not for profit organization.
Of special interest are:
Call Directors, Autovon, Card Dialers, Multiline & Key Equipment, early Wood and Payphones.
Or do you have a telephone collection to sell?
Go to the JKL Museum website: http://jklmuseum.com/wishlist for a list of items they would like to acquire or call (209) 755-4949
Click here for the Southern California Telephone Collectors Show info.
Click here for the show blog. There will be photos posted to the blog on the day of the show.
Trailer Removal
Last Friday, January 15, 2016 was the day of the trailer removal:
The JKL Museum’s step-by-step emergency switching trailer was damaged beyond repair during the Butte forest fire on September 11 2015.
It was the first, and to this date only, item of ‘debris’ that has been removed from the museum site.
It took almost all day to remove the trailer from its location on to the main road. First it needed to be fitted with ‘new’ tires because one of them was burned away completely during the fire and the other one was exposed to extreme heat. It took a lot of maneuvering to get the trailer on the main road because there is no room to turn around on or near the museum grounds.
The following photos give an impression of the whole operation.
The 1976 Bell System Telephone Book Cover
This week we received a very generous donation of two large original pencil sketches with a total of thirty vignettes by Stanley Meltzoff (1917-2006). The artwork, created for the 1976 Bell System telephone directory cover, was inspired by a piece known as the Gossips by Norman Rockwell.
Stanley Meltzhoff’s work has appeared in Saturday Evening Post, Life, Scientific American, National Geographic and Sports Illustrated.
We are very excited about this donation. It’s a wonderful piece of telephone history.
In the art work, various characters from American history were depicted on the 1976 telephone book cover, each talking on one of the various types of telephones that were designed since Alexander Graham Bell patented the telephone.
The cover commemorates the 200th birthday of the United States and the 100th anniversary of the telephone. It appeared on more than 184 million Bell System telephone directory covers throughout the U.S.
See you at the San Jose Telephone Show – This Saturday – November 21
See you at the San Jose Telephone Show – This Saturday – November 21
For more information about the San Jose Telephone Show:
http://telephonecollector.
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The San Jose Telephone Collectors Show on Saturday, November 21, is your
opportunity to bring unique, rare, or unusual telephones and other
telephone artifacts for the JKL2 staff to consider for purchase and/or
donation.
