insider.si.edu

Bell Telephone System's preeminent role in the growth of industrial design / Ralph O. Meyer, Russell A. Flinchum

Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part 1: Industrial design takes root -- Alexander Graham Bell's telephone in a box -- An unexpected configuration change -- Rapid domestication -- Part 2: A 20-year ...
Morning Call PA

As Bell Labs marks a century, look back at a former Lehigh Valley partner Western Electric

As the iconic Bell Labs marks 100 years in 2025 as a research arm of former communications giants AT&T and Bell Telephone System, it has a historic, corporate tie-in to the Lehigh Valley: Allentown’s ...
Pratt Institute

Pratt’s Telephone Connection

During a study of evolving telephone designs for our new book, my coauthor Russell A. Flinchum and I came across two of Pratt’s distinguished alumni who had connections to the Bell Telephone System.
EdTech

Infrastructure Upgrades Allow Schools to Improve Clock, Bell and Phone Technologies

Rebecca Torchia is a web editor for EdTech: Focus on K–12. Previously, she has produced podcasts and written for several publications in Maryland, Washington, D.C., and her hometown of Pittsburgh.
Untapped Cities

Architecture Spotlight: Bell Telephone Building-A Monument to Talk

The building that stands at 140 New Montgomery was built in 1925 for the Pacific Telephone Company, part of the Bell System. It was, at the time, the first significant skyscraper in San Francisco, as ...
Hackaday

Retrotechtacular: The 1951 Telephone Selector

Telephone systems predate the use of cheap computers and electronic switches. Yesterday’s phone system used lots of stepping relays in a box known as a “selector.” If you worked for the phone company ...