How to Dial a Phone, circa 1930s

For all you whippersnappers out there who never had the experience , here ’s a primer on how to use a rotary dial phone . produce by Big Brother … I signify , the telephone company … in the 1930s , the film explained the dial tone and interfering signal to consumers used to having the operator link their call . Fun fact : AT&T installed the first “ reflexive speech sound ” in 1915 in Norfolk , Virginia , and removed thelast manual phonesfrom the organisation in 1978 .

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