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"Your Life Work" is apparently a series done for television. This one gives an overview of the careers created by the telecommunications industry.
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telecommunications
telephone
telegraph
careers
1956
Added: 20th August 2007
Views: 105
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A seven-minute explanation that hasnt changed much in eighty years.
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telephone
dial
1927
Added: 14th September 2007
Views: 142
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This postal depicts a fire alarm tower located where Main Street in Lockport, NY crosses the Erie Canal. The fire station is across the canal to the cameraman's left. The large bell no doubt was used to summon help in the event of a fire; but was the tower also used to detect smoke from fires before telephones were widespread? Incidentally, the bridge under the cameraman's feet was for many years the widest bridge in the world
See also Flight of Five for a reverse view looking instead up the canal gorge and note the position of the tower.
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postal
lockport
flight
tower
fire
traffic
erie
canal
Added: 28th October 2007
Views: 177
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A closer than average look at what goes - or went - into making the common telephone in 1947.
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telephone
manufacturing
1947
Added: 13th November 2007
Views: 82
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A docu-drama about the telephone industry produced by the Atlanta Board of Education in 1935.
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telephone
network
1877
1935
Added: 23rd February 2008
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This early docu-drama begins in the years just after the Civil War. Enos Barton is a Western Union telegraph operator in Rochester, NY. He moved to Cleveland where he partnered with Elisha Gray to form Gray & Barton, which later became the Western Electric Company.
In it we learn that telephone operators would have been men, but that their "fingers arent educated to this sort of thing."
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western
electric
ticker
tape
rochester
Added: 11th April 2008
Views: 110
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