 | What I know: Photo stamped with "Rembrant Studios, Old Marsten Bldg, San Diego"
I did some research on the phone. Here's what antique telephone expert Tom Adams had to say:
"I wish I had that telephone! I have never seen this one before but it is somewhat similar to a Standard of Madison, WI rope shaft, but not exactly like any Standard I have ever seen. Even the earliest Standard rope shaft upright from 1896 had a watch case receiver and was mounted on the same round wooden base as the later model in 1897-98 that had a long pole receiver. And the rope shaft was fatter. This switch hook is very unique to me as well.
I am also guessing that this telephone was in service 1896-1899 based on the hook and the long pole receiver."
Do you know who this is?
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Wednesday, September 5, 2012
What's Your Name?!
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clearly that day's iphone5? (631)-1876 used to be the Highland Terrace phone number, later becoming Buck's phone number - ("the year the phone was invented," about a century before ET phoned home).
ReplyDeleteHowever, according to WIKIPEDIA, 1876 actually is when BELL pulled a superior business move (to quote GWG3 : don't let the facts get in the way of a good story):
The invention of the telephone is the culmination of work done by many individuals, the history of which involves a collection of claims and counterclaims. The prerequisite for the development of the telephone goes back to the year 1833 were Carl Friedrich Gauß and Wilhelm Eduard Weber invented the electric transmission of signals in Göttingen which set the fundamental basis for the technology that was used in all inventions following. This invention is recognized to be the first electromagnetic telegraph of the world.
The development of the modern telephone involved an array of lawsuits founded upon the patent claims of several individuals. This article covers the early years 1844–1898, from conception of the idea of an electric voice-transmission device, failed attempts to use "make-and-break" current, successful experiments with electromagnetic devices by Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas A. Watson, to commercially successful telephones in the late 19th century.
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An early voice communicating device was invented around 1854 by Antonio Meucci, who called it a telettrofono. In 1871 Meucci filed a caveat at the US Patent Office. His caveat describes his invention, but does not mention a diaphragm, electromagnet, conversion of sound into electrical waves, conversion of electrical waves into sound, or other essential features of an electromagnetic telephone.
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Meucci was recognized for his pioneering work on the telephone by the United States House of Representatives in 2002.[10] The resolution stated that "if Meucci had been able to pay the $10 fee to maintain the caveat after 1874, no patent could have been issued to Bell." No such patent could have issued to Bell in March 1876. If Meucci had renewed his caveat, he would have been given an opportunity to prove to the examiner that the device described in his caveat was the electromagnetic telephone described in Bell's patent application.