Go back to article: Troublesome telephony: how users and non-users shaped the development of early British exchange telephony

Figure 10

Colour photograph of a wall mounted wooden telephone with two earpieces from the 1880s

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Gower-Bell telephone, 1881: the Gower-Bell telephone was the standard telephone issued by the Post Office when it entered the telephone business in the early 1880s, offering a service to its existing telegraph customers

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15180/150308/015