(old telephone switchboard)
1Telephone exchange — A telephone operator manually connecting calls with cord pairs at a telephone switchboard. In the field of telecommunications, a telephone exchange or telephone switch is a system of electronic components that connects telephone calls. A central… …
2Telephone number — A telephone number or phone number is a sequence of digits used to call from one telephone line to another in a public switched telephone network. When telephone numbers were invented, they were short as few as one, two or three digits and were… …
3Telephone — The telephone (from the el. τῆλε, tēle , far and φωνή, phōnē , voice ) is a telecommunications device that is used to transmit and receive sound (most commonly speech), usually two people conversing but occasionally three or more. It is one of… …
4Telephone related articles — These are some of the links to articles that are telephone related.See Category:Telephony for many more links See also * Answering machine * Alexander Graham Bell * Bell labs * Bell System * Carterfone * Dial tone * Elisha Gray and Alexander Bell …
5telephone — telephoner, n. /tel euh fohn /, n., v., telephoned, telephoning. n. 1. an apparatus, system, or process for transmission of sound or speech to a distant point, esp. by an electric device. v.t. 2. to speak to or summon (a person) by telephone. 3.… …
6Business telephone system — Early model 464G Western Electric key telephone set A business telephone system is any of a range of a multiline telephone systems typically used in business environments, encompassing systems ranging from small key systems to large scale private …
7555 (telephone number) — In North America, telephone numbers with the prefix 555 are widely used for fictitious telephone numbers in television shows, films, computer games, and other media. Not all numbers that begin with 555 are fictional mdash;for example, 555 1212 is …
8Magee, Mississippi —   City   Location of Mag …
9Peter Twinn — Peter Frank George Twinn (9 January 1916 ndash; 29 October 2004Dan Van Der Vat, Obituary: Peter Twinn , The Guardian , 20 November 2004] ) was a British mathematician, World War II codebreaker and entomologist.Education and codebreakingBorn in… …
10The Broom of the System — (ISBN 0 14 200242 9) is the first novel by the American writer David Foster Wallace. Published in 1987, the book centers on the character of Lenore Stonecipher Beadsman, a 24 year old telephone switchboard operator. In Wallace s typically offbeat …
