It ’s possible that some of you have never determine a rotary sound in real life sentence . It ’s potential that many of you have never used a rotary earpiece : get wind the pulsation take the seat of the tone , mustered your longanimity as the dial roll back it its reset , cursed a identification number with so many nil in it because it takes so long to call . And that ’s a disgrace , because rotary sound are awesome : physical of a time when the abode phone was house decor . Here are some of our faves .
Experimental telephone manufactured by LM Ericsson in the 1920s. Handset is made of hard rubber.
Photo : Tekniska museet
The m33, circa 1931, was the fruit of a collaboration between the Electric Bureau in Oslo and AB Alpha workshops in Sundbyberg. Designers: Jean Heiberg and Johan Christian Bjerknes.
Western Electric #202 desk phone, 1930s.
Photo : Mark Mathosian
Gilded table model of ivory, distributed to larger LM Ericsson customers, 1930s.
Triple rotary phone at the New York Stock Exchange master control panel, circa 1950.
Photo : George Pickow / Three Lions / Getty Images
Drive-in public phone from the 1950s.
A 1950s woman using a telephone headset as she irons.
Photo : Al Barry / Three Lions / Getty Images
Ericofon, aka the cobra phone. Designed in the late 1940s by a design team including Gösta Thames, Ralph Lysell, and Hugo Blomberg. Made by Ericsson Company of Sweden, production began in 1954. It’s in MOMA now
picture : Marcin Wichary / Holger . Ellgaard / Wikimedia Coommons
A red Swedish bakelite phone with unique vertical rotary dialer, 1955.
The Princess Phone was designed by Henry Dreyfuss and introduced by the Bell System in 1959.
Another cool Swedish design: telephone embodied in the form of an aircraft, circa 1960.
This is rocket science: director of NASA Wernher von Braun on the phone, 1961.
exposure : Keystone / Getty Images//Joe Haupt
Not exactly telephone, but this photo must be here. A system for dialling for a drink: installed in the Flag Inn pub at Bromley Cross in Lancashire, UK. It was devised by thirsty electronics expert Dick Millington. October 1963.
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1964: A Japanese telephone operator in Tokyo use the new View Phone, made by Toshiba Shibaura Electric Co.
Classic black bakelite phone from 1968.
Toshiba’s Model 500 View Phone, being tested at the company’s Tokyo headquarters, 1968.
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A transparent telephone at an exhibition, ‘This Super-Phonic Age’ produced by London’s Telephone Service at Gamages Store, London, 1969.
pic : Michael Webb / Keystone / Getty Images
Phone with a dial built into the handset, c1970.
exposure : Theron LaBounty
The Disco Queen, from the collection of the Museum of Communications in Seattle, probably from the Seventies.
Photo : Marcin Wichary
1977 Western Electric Sculptura.
Photo : mrdorkesq / John Cope
Jeff Booker demonstrating his prize-winning ‘phone of the future’ design, 1982.
photograph : Central Press / Getty Images
( Top image by : Tekniska museet . )
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