Phones

Bell's First Commercial Telephone 1877

reproduction by Arthur Grey Kruger

1947 WE Clear case phone

Western Electric 26

1923 Kellogg 150G switchboard

Federal and Century Split shaft phone

Grammont

Paris France

Western Electric 208

Extremely rare Western Electric Special Type 282A 100 station peg dialer

The peg dialer was introduced in Queens, New York in 1902. Only 40 other systems were installed in small communities in the northeast. The switching system was Bell's answer to a dialing system. Most of the systems were discontinued when they outgrew the 100 line capacity. The peg dialer was produced by Western Electric between 1902 and 1904. Bell discontinued the Queens system in 1904. In 1916 that Bell bought the patents from Automatic Electric Company for the dial system and then introduced the dial telephone in 1919

1902 Ericsson 388 reproduction

1905 Stroger wall Phone

WE 202 Clear case by Ray Kotke

American Electric No. 37

1916 Limousine Telephone

This is 1878 Charles Williams telephone commonly called a "Coffin" telephone. It was made for the National Bell Telephone Company. This phone is the first magneto signaling telephone. It is sound powered. You talk and listen into the receiver. Later in order to improve the talk volume a Blake transmitter and battery was added externally to the phone. This early phone was made only 2 years after the telephone was invented in 1876.

Grey 23-D