Word: dials
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bright and shiny affair, all a glitter with highly-polished brass and chromium plate, the new switch-board sports a chic little dial, supposedly a much needed labor-saving device, which, the telephone company claims, will eliminate the pseudo laborious task of pushing the signal lever to connect with the outside trunk line, while at the same time, it is also asserted, it will speed up the service greatly, but this only after the operator has "finally got the hang...
This system will be still further enlarged next year when the dial system is installed and a new and larger switchboard is constructed. The branch boards in the Athletic Association and the Biological laboratory will be entirely abolished and these telephones will be controlled from the central office in Lehman hall. The number for the whole system will be Krikland...
...venture was close to $500,000. WLW's programs should be picked up by an ordinary set under any conditions within a 2,500-mi. radius, under good conditions anywhere in the world. Other radiocasters and the Federal Radio Commission feared the new giant might "blanket the dial," drowning out less powerful signals by failing to stay within its assigned channel of 700 kilocycles. For months test signals have been broadcast before daybreak while the Commission's investigators watched their frequency testers like hawks. Last month, satisfied that WLW would not hog the air, the Commission gave...
About December 4, 1934, the dial system will be installed in Cambridge. Thereafter, the number of the main switchboard will be Kirkland...
...records photographed by its automatic cameras. Accountants testified that, because Dr. Smahl had always been a nuisance, individual records had been kept in his case which agreed with the company's routine records. Engineers testified that Dr. Smahl's little padlock was insignificant; even with a locked dial the instrument could have been used by removing the receiver and jiggling the hook. A jury of six men, after an hour's deliberation, decided the historic case for Dr. Smahl, awarding him a verdict of $5.40 against the telephone company...