actually went on so there were people I think there were a million people I could be mistaken on that employed as telephone operators and you would tell them and they would plug things around now that switching function as you'rewell aware has been taken over by the it's called ESS the electronic switching systems and all those people are out of
was the first writer who ever had a typewriter and was obsessed with that and installed a telephone in his house as soon as he could get his hands on a telephone he was also he'd be comfortable here I think anyway the Connecticut Yankees means of timetravel is he gets bonked on a head on the head and he wakes up and he's in in
Photos, resume, finish. But I had to search by magazines. Telephone number, calling, no answer.Sending photos takes one week.
They weren't quite ready as it turned out. Telephone equipment from Alexander Graham Bell, telegraph equipment.They wanted to be able to communicate over vast expanses of the ice.
And what it did, as you may know, is it allowed telephone calls to actually travel across the country. Telephone signals were not digital at the time.They were traveling by waves.
my lab for a few weeks. But a month before her scheduled time, she called me and explained sheepishly that she would have to back out of the job. So this is her on the telephone . She said, "I have just won an all expenses paid trip to Switzerland for this summer." "Wow," I repliedand I expressed by sincere congratulations then I added just in jest, "but if you stop to reconsider for a
one um well we all don't have them yet and they're they're a little you know we're still deal dealing with like telephone pole wires and stuff like that well few obstacles on that one and last but not least we werepromised through things like Star Trek and other uh pop culture a machine that will just you tell it what to make and
took centuries for the printing press to to affect an appreciable portion of the population took 50 years for the telephone to be used by a quarter of the American population uh Google wasadopted in just a few years time so there's a continual acceleration of these Technologies and the roots of that
things we've seen in the past this was from Western Union who couldn't see the value of a telephone or oops uh my favorite um thankfully digital equipment thought there was noneed for a computer in every home he didn't think about 100 computers in
newspaper job to venture onto the grounds of South Boston high school when bricks were being thrown instead I would telephone the headmaster headmaster and ask him to relay to me the number of broken chairs in the cafeteria each daya white colleague would then be dispatched to the scene to fill in the details I spent 30 years in journalism
But -- but as you start asking all those questions about Google Books, and Google News, and -- and advertising and how about for your telephone service? You know, and -- and how about YouTube and television? Why can't we get that through John Stewart.Why can't you see it on, we're on a plane. User generated contents or whatever.
their problems and most of all about their decisions like listening in on the telephone and uh certainly in the last phase we were breaking at least90% of the messages I have made a uh an exhibit
In the preceding decade people had been getting into their increasingly middle class homes; automobiles, refrigerators, radios, telephones , electric lights, gas ranges, plumbing.And then they would all leave their home as quickly as possible when they heard one sound.
In 1928, Philip H. Smith, fresh out of electrical engineering school, got his first job at Bell Labs. The telephone industry was booming. Americans were placing more than 65 million calls a day.
I've obviously spoken before about how long it took for us to get a phone, about five years, but it's not the only thing. - A telephone ? - There was a five-year waiting list, and we got a rotary telephone , but it dramatically changed our lives. You know, people would come to our house to make calls to their loved ones.
The telephone changed everything.
like telephone calls and in the case of cable companies, video, as they started to also offer internet service, broadband internet service, you start
So telephone survey is much cheaper, but then there's this huge refusal rate.
I am here I remember barely but I remember when I was a kid you pick up the telephone there was no dial and a person would get on the line and say uh what do you want what number number please I think they used to say and you would tell them big 82 4200 I mean this
obviously help us to inform uh us about what our own capabilities are and what these telephone operators still have jobs it's obviously the wrong approach to take do your jobs generate that
Because telephone booths are kind of like rooms and therefore, people should be entitled to the same kind of privacy in the room.
the telephone line-- came up out of the Atlantic Ocean and up into this building.
peace telephone line which is one where they put a free phone telephone number on Billboard's around the country and any Israeli could phone this free phone
called Telephone . So I've done a lot of different choreography for other people.
Nice telephone lines, by the way, it's really awesome.
For telephone numbers, we had to create number portability.
The telephone rang. Gloria pick it up.
expensive telephone polling-- to pretend that no one else is doing the same thing.
The telephone reached 25% of the US population in 50 years.
Digital communications and information theory came out of there. Cellular telephone networking came out of there. UNIX, the C language, digital signal processing-- I'm sure Ileft out a few.
the telephone fax machine calculator and ultimately the computer are only the latest Innovations on that uh devised
no telephone uh heavily accented Northeastern uh Brazilian Portuguese so
The telephones were analog.
Like telephones ? Yes, we did have telephones .
threw telephones at people, and completely unscrupulous.
The telephones were still plugged into the walls.
Americans were placing more than 65 million calls a day. But because telephone calls had to go through copper cables, every call had a limit: the coast. At the time, no telephone cables crossed the Atlantic, so the only way to call across continents was by using radio waves.
I had three telephone lines coming in into my tiny room.
over the telephone line to send digital signals back and forth.
Western Electric telephone to the iPhone. That's still there. I haven't lost that. So even if some change has
and twice weekly telephone calls with with his sons, who live in the UK and his sons who live in the UK and who have
to the telephone -- and my aunt was an immigrant in the US.
It was the telephone ages.
It's like a telephone booth.
I got a telephone interview on the tenth of May.
And it hit the telephone wires and crashed.
And these were basically telephone booths, but they were manned by shopkeepers or 7-Eleven mom and pop store owners.
All the telephone communications are cleared.
They handed me a telephone , and they said, call these 500 people today, and I did.
On the telephone over the past few months, in retrospect-- now, this is the daughter telling me this story in clinic with her mother sitting next to her--