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TELEPHONE HISTORY

• Over the course of twenty years, the Bell Company fought over 600 lawsuits and won all of them, effectively becoming a monopoly for the 20-year duration of Bell’s patents. By the turn of the century, Bell Telephone Co. had morphed into A T & T, standing for American Telephone & Telegraph.

• By 1894, Bell’s patents had expired, opening the industry to competition.

Within a decade, over 6,000 companies went into business across the country.

But subscribers to different telephone companies could not call each other. This situation took 20 years to fix.

• In 1892 a long distance line connecting New York to Chicago was completed, able to handle a single call at a time. The price was $9 for the first five minutes, equal to $226 today.

• The first transcontinental call took place in January 1915 when Bell in New York called Watson in San Francisco. The call took 23 minutes to get through.

Intercontinental service began in 1927 between New York and London with callers being charged $75 ($980 in today’s currency) for the first three minutes.

FAMOUS PHONE FIRSTS

• The origin of the phrase ‘to put someone on hold’ was originated by Alexander Graham Bell handing over his telephone to his partner Mr. Watson and saying, “Here, hold this.”

• The soundproof booth was invented by Mr. Watson to stop his landlady from eavesdropping. The first prototype built in 1877 used blankets wrapped around a box.

• The oldest existing phone book dates from 1878. It’s 20 pages long and contains the names of 391 subscribers in New Haven but not their phone numbers. To contact somebody you had to ring the operator and ask the operator to put you through.

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FAMOUS PHONE FIRSTS

• The concept of assigning telephone numbers to individual phone lines was invented by a doctor. When a fever epidemic hit a small town in Massachusetts in 1879, the local doctor realized that relying on their local telephone operators was risky-- what if they all fell sick at once?

Their replacements wouldn’t know the names of the townsfolk or how to direct emergency calls. The doctor came up with a solution: replace names with numbers, allowing the operator to connect without needing to know the exact name.

• Almon Strowger was an undertaker in Kansas City who suspected he was losing business to a rival. The rival’s wife worked as a switchboard operator and he thought she was diverting calls to her husband.

One morning in 1886 his suspicions were confirmed as he read in the newspaper that his close friend had passed away and been buried by this rival. This was his incentive to replace human operators with an automatic switchboard. The Strowger Automatic Telephone System became known as the “girl-less, cuss-less, out-of-order-less, wait-less telephone.”

• Phone companies were focusing on urban areas first, so in 1902, a group of Montana farmers decided to build their own phone network. Farmers discovered that if you hooked phone sets to the wires of the barbed wire fences that separated the farms, calls could be made. Thus was born the first distributed “party line.”

• Willy Müller invented the automatic answering machine in 1935. It was a three-foot-tall machine popular with Orthodox Jews who were forbidden to answer the phone on the Sabbath.

• On November 18, 1963, the push-button telephone was officially introduced by Bell Systems in the USA. Originally push-button dials had only 10 buttons.

The # and * buttons were added in 1968.

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STRANGE BUT TRUE

by Samantha Weaver

● It was Martin Luther King Jr. who made the following sage observation: “In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” ● If you head up to the top floor of the U.S. Supreme Court building, you’ll find a basketball court. It’s known, of course, as “the highest court in the land.” ● During the filming of the classic film “The Wizard of Oz,” the dog that played Toto was paid $125 per week. In contrast, the actors who played the munchkins were paid $100 per week -- and their manager, Leo Singer, kept half of that. ● Those who study such things say that goats have accents.

● If you’re suffering from xanthodontia, don’t worry; a dentist can help whiten those yellow teeth. ● In Germany in the 1500s, a court physician by the name of Oswaldt Gabelthouer wrote a medical book full of remedies that he guaranteed would be effective. For insanity, the patient must cut his or her hair close to the head, then tie two halves of a ram’s liver to the head. A severe case of epilepsy, he claimed, could be cured if the patient wore the right eye of a wolf and the left eye of a she-wolf on a thong about the neck for three months; also, the patient had to forgo bathing during that time. There’s no mention in the record at hand of how a patient would go about redeeming the guarantee. (c) 2014 King Features Synd., Inc.

BAD SERVICE • In 1970, General Telephone in California was not a very reliable service. Static, disconnections, and strange ringing with no one calling were common. It was a company people loved to hate. Then the company launched a series of “mea culpa” ads. In one, a wife urges her husband at a party to say something funny. “General Telephone!” he says, and the party gets hysterical while a voice-over announces, “We know some people think our service is laughable, but we’re spending $200 million to improve it. What’s so funny about that?” In the next ad, a mildmannered man introduces himself, “Hello, I’m from General Telephone.”

Off camera, hoots and catcalls ring out.

“Now, I know that General Telephone provides less than adequate service.” A tomato clips him on the chin. “But we’re spending $200 million on improving our service.” He ducks an egg. “Cables, switches, personnel— everything.” A pie“NATIONAL” smacks himWORDS in the face.

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• Chinese: The generic term “chinese” now represents types of food that are very different from the meals that are (or ever were) served in China. That said, the same argument could be made about what we consider “American” food. Hamburgers? Ice cream?

Hot dogs? Pizza? Our national favorites seem to have originated everywhere except in the United States!

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EMAIL HISTORY

• In 1972, Ray Tomlinson was working on developing the precursor to the Internet, a system called ARPANET, which stood for Advanced Research Projects Agency Network. One day he sat two computers next to each other. They were connected to each other only by ARPANET. He sent a message from one to the other, and that was the world’s first email. Tomlinson claims the message was probably something like “Testing 123.”

• It was Tomlinson’s idea to use the @ symbol to separate the name of the user from the name of the computer. The @ sign was originally an accounting symbol used in commercial invoices meaning “at the rate of” as in: six widgets @ $2 per widget = $12.

Tomlinson chose the symbol because it is on every keyboard, yet is rarely used. Its official English name is “the commercial at sign.”

• Although in the U.S. it’s usually called simply the “at sign,” other countries have different names for it. In Dutch, it’s apestaart meaning monkey’s tail. In Swedish, it’s snabel-a meaning “A” with an elephant’s trunk. In Italian, it’s chiocciolina meaning small snail. In Hungary, it’s kukatsz meaning little worm. In Czech, it’s zavinac meaning a rolled pickled herring. In Finland, it’s miumau (the sound a cat makes) because it looks like a sleeping cat. In Russian, it’s sabachka meaning puppy. In German, it’s klammerraffe meaning spider monkey.

• On May 24, 2004, which was the 160th anniversary of the first public Morse telegraph transmission, a unique Morse code for the ‘@’ symbol was introduced: • – – • – • (dot-dashdash-dot-dash-dot). This was the first official addition to the Morse set of characters since World War I. • There are about 3.8 billion email accounts worldwide, on a planet with about 7 billion humans.

EMAIL FACTS If you printed out each non-spam email sent in the world on a single piece of standard paper, in just under 2 hours, you would have enough paper to cover the continental USA. Around 4 days later, you could cover the earth’s entire surface area. One day’s worth of emails would produce a stack of paper 2,159 times taller than Mt. Everest. It would take just over 20 days for the stack to reach the moon.

EASY PASSWORDS In 2009 when ten thousand Hotmail passwords were exposed online, it turned out that the most popular choice for a password was “123456.”

THE FIRST SPAM • By 1978 there was a printed directory of everyone who was using the ARPANET system. When a new computer operating system was released that supported ARPANET, someone decided the news should be spread among all 600 ARPANET users. A marketing manager entered the email addresses of all 600 people and sent them what turned out to be the world’s very first spam. Ironically, the marketer wasn’t familiar with the system, so the 600 email addresses filled the recipient box, overflowed the CC box, and flowed into the body of the email.

• Spam was named spam because of a Monty Python comedy sketch in which the waitress in a café explains that the only things on the menu are spam and eggs, spam and bacon, sausage and spam, spam with spam, spam with spam and a side order of spam, or lobster thermidore with a side of spam, while the diner explains that she DOESN’T LIKE SPAM. This is similar to what happens when you open your email in-box to find 72 messages that you don’t want.

• Worldwide, more than 294 billion emails are sent and received daily, averaging around 40 for every person on the planet. Of those, an estimated 90% are spam or viruses.

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30/1917 calls placed than any other day of the The year? History town and opened for business on Monday Channel 7/1/1906 2. How many words will a person speak in a morning. However, no one came to see him all ● On July 7, 1865, Mary executed week, ● untilOn a manJuly walked11, into his1960, office onnovelty Friday. song “Alley Oop” tops the typicalSurratt 3-minuteisphone call? for her role as s 7/2/1929 1. There are more phone calls placed on Mother’s Day Wanting to impress his fi rst patient, he pickedOop was the name of a timea conspirator in Abraham Lincoln’s assassination.

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The average person will speak 450 words in a boardinghouse, a few blocks from Ford’s Theatre, where a comic strip of the same name er 7/4/1826 many patients to see today that I won’t be able to typical 3 minute phone call. presidents had kept it in whereas previous Lincoln was murdered, served as the place where a group created in 1932 by cartoonist V.T. Hamlin.

7/5/1810 3. Hoover wasanthe first president adjoining room. to have a phone right make it over to the hospital to help you with that on his White House desk. brain operation!” He then hung up the receiver of Confederate supporters conspired to assassinate the 4. This president the fithe rst to place a President Richard M. Nixonwas placed first phone and asked “What seems be troublingWalter Mondale, Democratic president.4. ● the Onman,July 12, to1984, phone call to21, the1969. moon. He spoke to Aldrin you?” “Nothing’s call to the moon on July troubling me,” replied the visitor. and Armstrong presidential candidate, announces that he has chosen 5. inInthe thelunar jumpmodule. rope rhyme, what comes 959, this Manitoba city became the5.first The original jump-rope rhyme went, “Liar liar pants “I just came to hook up your phone!” after “Liar, liar, pants on fi re”? ● On July 8, 1898, notorious con man “Soapy” Smith is Geraldine Ferraro as his running mate, the first woman on fire / hang them from a telephone wire.” munity in North America to use a central

rgency number, which was 999 at theintime. murdered Skagway, Alaska. Smith earned his nickname 911 emergency number was originally calledbars of soap wrapped in blue tissue paper.

“Soapy” selling ne Eleven.” Why was it changed to “Nine He promised crowds that a few lucky purchasers would find One”?

nominated by a major party for the vice presidency.

● On July 10, 1992, the Alaska court of appeals overturns the conviction of Joseph Hazelwood, the former captain of the oil tanker Exxon Valdez. Hazelwood, who was found inum cans are ● On July 13, 1951, rivers across eastern Kansas crest well guilty of negligence for his role in the massive oil spill in 000 cans every ng aluminum above flood stage, and 500,000 people are left homeless.

Prince William Sound in 1989, successfully argued that he “I truly believe that one day, there will be and 97% less Two million acres of farmlands were lost.

In addition, the was entitled to immunity from prosecution because he had a telephone in every town in America.” luminum from flooding caused fires and explosions in refinery oil tanks on reported the oilpeople spill to authorities 20 minutes after the ship -Alexander Graham Bell This word means: In this county, 3rd Quarter 2014 are listed in the phone book the banks of the Kansas River. ranalphabetically aground. by their first names rather than their last Week 27 (c) 2012 King Features Synd., Inc. names. a $100 bill wrapped inside the $5 bars of soap.

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Gary Busey 6/29/1944 Lena Horn 6/30/1917 1. Winnipeg became theEstée first North LauderAmerican 7/1/1906 city to install a central emergency number.

Although they started with 999,Marcos they 7/2/1929 Imelda currently use 911. Each year, Canadians make 12 million calls to 911. George M. Cohan 7/3/1878 2. Nine Eleven was changed to Nine One Stephenwere Foster 7/4/1826 One because too many people wasting precious minutes searching for the 11 button P.T. Barnum 7/5/1810 on their phones.

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1. There are more phone calls placed on Mother’s Day than on any other day of the year.

2. The average person will speak 450 words in a The Greek word pheta slice meant turi pheta slice and typical 3 minute phone call.

The Greek word pheta slice meant turi pheta slice and 3. Hoover was the first president to have a phone right on his White House desk.

4. President Richard M. Nixon placed the first phone call to the moon on July 21, 1969. He spoke to Aldrin and Armstrong in the lunar module.

5. The original jump-rope rhyme went, “Liar liar pants on fire / hang them from a telephone wire.”

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