2004 Joseph James Zimmerman, inventor, invented the first electronic telephone answering machine in 1948, dies at 91
1997 US telephone tech Richard Bliss, arrested for spying in Russia
1995 Most Dutch telephone numbers increase to 10 digits
1994 Last Dutch electro-magnetic telephone exchange shuts down
1994 1st telephone link between Israel and Jordan
1992 10,000,000 cellular telephone sold
1990 New York Telephone company announces that it wants Bronx area code 917
1983 Last hand-cranked telephones U.S. went out of service as 440 telephone customers in Bryant Pond, Maine, were switched over to direct-dial
1977 ELO releases "Telephone Line"
1968 178,000 employees of U.S. Bell Telephone System go on strike
1963 Bell Telephone introduces push button telephone
1963 Touch-tone telephone introduced
1962 Netherlands telephone net becomes completely automated
1960 1 millionth Dutch telephone installed
1956 1st transatlantic telephone cable goes into operation (Scot-Canada)
1956 Transatlantic telephone cable (Newfoundland-Oban) is used
1956 1st trans atlantic telephone cable in use (Newfoundland-Scotland)
1951 1st long distance telephone call without operator assistance
1950 Telephone Answering Machine created by Bell Laboratories
1949 Chinatown telephone exchange closed
1947 "Medium and The Telephone" closes at Barrymore New York City after 211 performances
1947 1st telephone conversation between a moving car and a plane
1947 "Medium and The Telephone" opens at Barrymore Theater New York City for 211 performances
1947 Gian Carlo Menotti's opera "Telephone," premieres in New York City
1946 1st mobile long-distance car-to-car telephone conversation
1946 SW Bell inaugurates mobile telephone commercial service, St. Louis
1942 German occupier demands listing of all Dutch telephone subscribers
1941 Attack on telephone exchange in Schiphol
1933 1st transatlantic telephone wedding (Bertil Clason-Sigrid Carlson)
1930 Telephone connection England-Australia goes into service
1929 1st telephone installed in White House
1929 1st telephone connection between Netherlands and West-Indies
1929 1st telephone connection between Netherlands and East Indies
1928 1st radio telephone connection between Netherlands and US
1927 Telephone service begins between U.S. and Mexico
1927 Commercial transatlantic telephone service inaugurated between New York and London
1926 1st transatlantic telephone call, London - New York
1922 1st facsimile photo send over city telephone lines, Washington, D.C.
1922 Alexander Graham Bell, Scottish/US physicist (telephone), dies
1921 President Harding opens (via telephone) 1st Valencia Orange Show
1917 Telephone Co runs 1st ad for Army operators, gets 7,000 applicants
1915 1st transcontinental radio telephone message is sent
1915 Thomas Edison invents telescribe to record telephone conversations
1915 Transcontinental telephone service inaugurated (New York to SF)
1904 Bell Telephone Company of Antwerp Belgium forms
1903 Donald Voorhees, born in Allentown, Pennsylvania, conductor, Bell Telephone Hour
1898 1st telephone message from a submerged submarine, by Simon Lake
1896 Dial telephone patented
1891 London-Paris telephone connection opens
1891 Britain is linked to the continent by Telephone
1889 William Gray patents coin-operated telephone
1885 American Telephone and Telegraph (AT&T) incorporates
1884 1st long-distance telephone call, Boston - New York
1883 1st telephone call between New York and Chicago
1881 1st international telephone conversation, Calais, ME-St. Stephen, NB
1881 Bell Phone opens 1st Dutch telephone exchange
1880 1st pay telephone installed
1879 1st automatic telephone switching system patented
1878 1st White House telephone installed
1878 1st female telephone operator starts work (Emma Nutt in Boston)
1878 1st telephone introduced in Hawaii
1878 1st telephone book issued, 50 subscribers (New Harbor, Connecticut)
1878 1st telephone exchange in San Francisco opens with 18 phones
1878 1st telephone exchange (New Haven, CT)
1878 George W. Coy hired as 1st full-time telephone operator
1877 1st telephone and telegraph line in Hawaii completed
1877 Edwin T. Holmes installs 1st telephone switchboard burglar alarm
1877 1st telephone installed: Boston-Somerville, Massachusetts
1877 1st news dispatch by telephone, between Boston and Salem, Mass
1876 1st 2-way telephone conversation, 1st over outdoor wires
1876 1st telephone call made (Alexander Graham Bell to Thomas Watson)
1876 Alexander Graham Bell patents telephone
1876 A G Bell and Elisha Gray apply separately for telephone patents Supreme Court eventually rules Bell rightful inventor
1854 Thomas A. Watson, needed by Bell, inventor assistant, Telephone
1847 Alexander Graham Bell, born in Scotland, inventor of the telephone
1835 Elisha Grey, inventor, Telephone
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