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THE TELEPHONE The years have been filled with scientific discoveries of immense value to mankind and with notable practical development of these discoveries. The story of the growth of the telephone art has been written, chapter by chapter, in a constant effort to improve the transmission of speech in the nations service. Concretely illustrating this story are the apparatus, instruments and equipment items, all triumphs of scientific imagination in their day, all for a while the latest and best of their kind, but then surpassed. -1939-

Alexander Graham Bell in 1876

Thomas A. Watson in 1874

TABLE OF CONTENTS    About The Christianson Telephone Collection    Antique Telephones and Parts Wanted    Picture Index of Telephones    Interesting Facts & History    Sign or View the Guestbook    Email TELEPHONES ON DISPLAY 1876 Liquid Transmitter 1879 Top Box, Viaduct Hardware 1880 Gower Bell Telephone 1885 (est.) Wood Cradle Desk Telephone 1892 Western Electric Folding Cabinet Desk Set 1899 Strowger 10 Digit Automatic Wall Telephone 1900 Couch and Seeley Upright Desk Set 1900 Stromberg Carlson Tapered Shaft Desk Set 1902 Kellogg Corner Vanity 1902 Stromberg Carlson Common Battery Wall Set 1905 Chicago Upright Desk Set 1905 Connecticut Lobby Interphone 1905 Strowger 11 Digit Desk Telephone 1910 S.H. Couch & Co. Inter-Phone 1914 Magnavox Anti-Noise Desk Set 1914 Magnavox Anti-Noise Desk Set, Type B1 1915 De Veau Desk Set 1915 (est.) Home Made Wall Telephone Last updated on 06/05/2012 Designed by George Triant a member of