The Telephone Museum explores the industrial, technical, and social history of the country’s wired telephone network through a number of interactive and hands-on exhibits. A timeline of the technology of telephones is displayed throughout the museum, dating back to the earliest manual switchboard through modern electro-mechanical switching systems. All types of old telephones can be seen at The Telephone Museum, as well as switching systems and switchboards that powered the telephone network. Visitors can hear real telephones ringing, use a dial phone from the 1950’s, or experience what it was like being a switchboard operator in the year 1895.
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