And for anyone else that cares or is interested.
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fully scanned and not proof read for blurry images.I had to stop scanning the last few pages last night as the gf had put on some crotchless knickers.
Automatic Telephone (Old electrics for Owain and JGH)
Jun 04, 2012
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Tell her it's customary to sit on the scanner.
I have a copy of "The Complete Handyman" Odhams Press, 1938 I will scan the table of contents, and chapters on demand if anyone wants.
Me. I want to see it. And I suspect so would a few others.
Is there a wireless doorbell section? Please scan the table of contents.
Brings back happy memories seeing the Seimens preselector. Finished my apprenticeship - very good I was too ;-))) - then started in a Siemens 16 exchange in 1962. Had five enjoyable years there.
Andy C
I am obleeged.
How indescribably selfish of her :-)
Owain
Perhaps she had them on her head, and pencils up her nose, and kept saying 'wibble'... :-)
If anyone is interested in this stuff, the two volumes of Atkinson, on telephony, make fascinating reading.
You are welcome:-)
I could not find a better name for the folder.
Oh the memories came flooding back Jim G
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with wires I'm afraid. Mainly for summoning the servants.
I have two copies of each! Together with their predecessors by Herbert and Proctor, and Herbert's "Telegraphy" dated 1926, but originally published in 1906.
I think I have that book too..but mine looks more like 1914!
Required reading in my long-gone phone hacking days.
Nostalgia isn't what it used to be, is it?
I'm not sure which colour "box" it came in, but I discovered accidentally that you could make free calls on a reciprocal basis on our exchange if the called party momentarily looped the line to answer the call, but routed the audio to and from the line via a DC blocking capacitor.
It was a genuine accident that led me to this discovery, the home made telephone answering machine that I was testing sometimes didn't latch its answer relay correctly, and when I placed test calls from the local phone box my message would get recorded, and no pips! About 1970.
The last 3 scans have just uploaded.
Ta.
You lot may well already know this one.
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an interesting read. I stole the whole site and have it on DVD.
That reminds me - I lent my copies to a colleague a while ago, along with a 300 series bakelite phone - must see about getting them back...
I have H&P 1 and Atkinson 1 & 2, and also the Atkinson Supplement to Vol 2.
Owain
I've got Povey & Earl, which I think Owain gave me.
JGH
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