Vintage 1978 TELEPHONE Hardcover Book History 1970s with Future Predictions

Really interesting book, reading about the telephone’s past, where telephones were in 1978, and amazing predictions for the future … including what would become the internet.

Introduction excerpt:

We Americans talk more over the telephone than any other nation.

Wherever we congegrate in an office building, a stock exchange, a club, a university, a hospital or hotel, in every factory or newspaper building, telephones are installed to help us communicate faster and farther.

Next to the Bible, phone directories are read more than any other publication-more than 100 million people use the Yellow Pages over 4 billion times a year. Surely, impressive statistics.

Our American ingenuity and technological know-how have helped us to become very "communications conscious." There are a lot of things you can do with your telephone today. The advanced technology of communications aided by transistorized electronics and computers has made the telephone a versatile instrument which …

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Contents:

Introduction

Development of the Telephone:

Early Discoveries - Bell's Experiments - The Bell System - GTE Automatic Electric Company - ITT: International Telephone Telegraph - Today's Telephone

How Your Telephone Works:

The Loop - The Telephone Set The Switching Network - Hooking Up Your Own Phone

Analog vs. Digital Transmission:

Lightwave Communications Satellite Communications - Computers and the Telephone

FCC Rules and Regulations:

Manufacturer and Supplier Registration Owner Requirements - Telephone Company Requirements

The New Telephones and Accessories:

The Picturephone - The Speaker Phone - The Electronic Telephone - Cordless Telephones - Miscellaneous Accessories - Telephone Answering Machines

Decorator Telephones:

GTE's Decorator Phones and Accessories-AT&T's Decorator Phones and Accessories- ITT's Decorator Phones--Other Decorator Phones

Telephone Security Devices:

Voice Scrambling Devices -Wire Tap Debuggers Voice Stress Analyzer System--Security Alarm Systems--Automatic Telephone Dialer

Facsimile Communications:

Stringent Requirements - Early Facsimile Methods - The Photoelectric Cell - Electronic Mail - Scrambling Facsimile Communications

Mobile Radiotelephones:

How Mobile Telephones Work Station to Mobile Unit Calling - Mobile Unit to Base Station Calling Installation Technique - AttachePhone The Skyphone - Government Regulations - The Radio Common Carrier - Computer Technology and the Mobile

Phone

The Future

Appendix I Glossary

Appendix II List of Suppliers

Index