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Thursday, December 15, 2011

Telephone History Museum: Call Me In So Many Ways!


The main precondition for this museum became a private collection of General Director of one Moscow telecommunication company. Today the museum is closed for detached visitors and welcomes only mass-media and some special guests. Only the collection of telephones is exposed today, but everything now is being done to make a comprehensive museum of it. In summer 2011 they promise to open the doors of the museum in St. Petersburg for all who want to visit it.
Well, let us look at the phones themselves.
1984, ATEA
Trunk for the phone
PABX
Another one
Telephones from granny...
1895, L. M. Ericsson
This one seems to have been designed by those who made "Singer" machines, looks so alike! 
1910, S. H. Couch Company, the USA
Look at these faces...
Closer a bit...
1914, Magnavox, the USA
This one was used at the battleship "Potyomkin", the phone of the Kolbasyev system. It helped to talk to a diver!
The loudspeaker that the diver had.
Cute French pipes. 1900s, Pherophon, France
1910, Milde, France
A set that was used in field conditions in the same way we use portable radio transmitters. 
Also used in field conditions but more modern one. Looks a bit like an iron, quite convenient - ironing and calling at the same time ..
1890s, Siemens & Halske, Germany
1929, the Leningrad Telephone Factory "Krasnaya Zarya", the USSR
1950s, Signal Corp., the USA, an American phone always looks like an American one...
Incredibly beautiful «Ericsson», 1885, Sweden
Though a Soviet phone always looks like a Soviet one too... 1964, the USSR
Heavy ones, 1970, Germany
Telephone used in trains
Telegraph apparatus
Universal telephones - on the left the German pay telephone, on the right - 1909, "Ericsson", Sweden







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