Continuing with Innovation and Discovery Week here on the blog... Yesterday was the anniversary of the first two-way phone conversation. On this plaque: "From this site on October 9, 1876 the first two-way long distance telephone conversation was carried on for three hours. From here in Cambridgeport Thomas G. Watson spoke over a telegraph wire to Alexander Graham Bell at the office of the Walworth Mfg. Co. 69 Kirby Street, Boston, Mass. While I wasn't able to get a video of the first two-way, long distance telephone conversation, I was able to find one explaining how the first two-way, transatlantic telephone conversation worked. In 1926 The Post Office and Bell Laboratories engineered the world's first two way transatlantic telephone conversation...
What was technology like when you were born? Well, this Thursday is World Telecommunication Day. To celebrate, I thought I'd share some of the telecommunication that was around the year I was born: 1962.
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Slinky Commercial 1962:
We loved Slinkies even though they had no technology whatsoever!
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New Telephone Inventions of the early 1960s:
Pretty high tech for 50yrs ago...and notice the quality of the commercial. LOL
Share something from the year you were born!
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