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Historical Perspectives of Development of Antique Analog Telephone Systems Vinayak L
Review Historical Perspectives of Development of Antique Analog Telephone Systems Vinayak L. Patil Trinity College of Engineering and Research, University of Pune, Pune, India Abstract—Long distance voice communication has been al- ways of great interest to human beings. His untiring efforts and intuition from many years together was responsible for making it to happen to a such advanced stage today. This pa- per describes the development time line of antique telephone systems, which starts from the year 1854 and begins with the very early effort of Antonio Meucci and Alexander Graham magnet core Bell and ends up to the telephone systems just before digiti- Wire 1Coil with permanent Wire 2 zation of entire telecommunication systems. The progress of development of entire antique telephone systems is highlighted in this paper. The coverage is limited to only analog voice communication in a narrow band related to human voice. Diaphragm Keywords—antique telephones, common battery systems, cross- bar switches, PSTN, voice band communication, voice commu- nication, strowger switches. Fig. 1. The details of Meucci’s telephone. 1. Initial Claims and Inventions Since centuries, telecommunications have been of great cally. Due to this idea, many of the scientific community interest to the human beings. One of the dignified per- consider him as one of the inventors of telephone [10]. sonality in the field of telecommunication was Antonio Boursuel used term “make and break” telephone in his Meucci [1]–[7] (born in 1808) who worked relentlessly for work. In 1850, Philip Reis [11]–[13] began work on tele- communication to distant person throughout his life and in- phone. -
HARD FACTS and SOFT SPECULATION Thierry De Duve
THE STORY OF FOUNTAIN: HARD FACTS AND SOFT SPECULATION Thierry de Duve ABSTRACT Thierry de Duve’s essay is anchored to the one and perhaps only hard fact that we possess regarding the story of Fountain: its photo in The Blind Man No. 2, triply captioned “Fountain by R. Mutt,” “Photograph by Alfred Stieglitz,” and “THE EXHIBIT REFUSED BY THE INDEPENDENTS,” and the editorial on the facing page, titled “The Richard Mutt Case.” He examines what kind of agency is involved in that triple “by,” and revisits Duchamp’s intentions and motivations when he created the fictitious R. Mutt, manipulated Stieglitz, and set a trap to the Independents. De Duve concludes with an invitation to art historians to abandon the “by” questions (attribution, etc.) and to focus on the “from” questions that arise when Fountain is not seen as a work of art so much as the bearer of the news that the art world has radically changed. KEYWORDS, Readymade, Fountain, Independents, Stieglitz, Sanitary pottery Then the smell of wet glue! Mentally I was not spelling art with a capital A. — Beatrice Wood1 No doubt, Marcel Duchamp’s best known and most controversial readymade is a men’s urinal tipped on its side, signed R. Mutt, dated 1917, and titled Fountain. The 2017 centennial of Fountain brought us a harvest of new books and articles on the famous or infamous urinal. I read most of them in the hope of gleaning enough newly verified facts to curtail my natural tendency to speculate. But newly verified facts are few and far between. -
The Panel Dial Telephone Switching System Douglas A. Kerr Issue 6 June 15, 2018
The panel dial telephone switching system Douglas A. Kerr Issue 6 June 15, 2018 ABSTRACT In the 1910s, AT&T, the parent of the Bell Telephone System, anxious to reduce the stupendous labor costs of manual telephone switching (especially in large metropolitan areas), and realizing that the most prominent available switching system (the Strowger system) had serious limitations of its use in such areas, undertook the development from the ground up of a switching system based on many entirely new concepts. This system, the panel dial switching system, came to be the mainstay of the Bell System’s program of mechanizing telephone service in many of the largest cities in the U.S. In this article, we will learn of the evolution of this system, of the unique mechanisms around which it revolves, and of the implications of its basic operational principle, known as common control. Considerable detail in system operation is given, although not usually at the circuit level, except where necessary to illustrate an important concept. 1 HISTORICAL CONTEXT 1.1 The telephone industry in 1910 By 1910, the telephone industry in the United States was well on the way to its “classical” structure, which existed until about 1984. The Bell Telephone System, owned by American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T), was becoming the major force in the industry, and provided local telephone service in most of the nation’s largest cities (often after acquiring existing locally-owned telephone companies, sometime several competing ones in the same city, whose operations had to be harmonized and consolidated). In about 1907, AT&T adopted the slogan, “One Policy, One System, Universal Service”. -
Sangamo Data
TCI Library www.telephonecollectors.info INSTALLATION AND OPERATION MANUAL RIXON-SANGAMO TlOlCSC SERIES DATA SET SYSTEM Rixon, Inc. A Subsidiary of Sangamo 2120 Industrial Parkway Silver Spring, Maryland 20904 BULLETIN 5367 ISSUE 1 Part No. 693729 November, 1 972 TCI Library www.telephonecollectors.info '-- -- TCI Library www.telephonecollectors.info ISS. 1, BULLETIN 5367 INTRODUCTION This manual contains the information series. A list of equipment necessary to install and operate the various specifications is also included. T101 CSC Data Set Systems, manufactured by Sangamo Electric Company, in conjunction with 2-0 INSTALLATION AND the teletypewriter and data access arrangement CONNECTION - Supplies detailed ( DAA). Instructions are also provided for procedures for unpacking, installing, teletypewriter modification. For maintenance and connecting the different data set and troubleshooting assistance, contact the systems. Also provides teletypewriter Communication Systems Data Service Center, modification procedures. Sangamo Electric Company, Springfield, Illinois. The information provided by this manual is 3-0 OPERATION - Describes the grouped into four sections. A brief description complete procedures for operating the of each section is provided below: different data set systems with the various teletypewriters. 1-0 GENERAL DESCRIPTION - 4-0 DRAWINGS AND DIAGRAMS Provides general information about Furnishes the connection diagrams for data set and auxiliary equipment. each data set system when connected Describes the various applications -
Film, Folders, and Mina Loy
FORUM: IN THE ARCHIVES Live from the Archive: Film, Folders, and Mina Loy Sasha Colby In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, much of the talk around ideas of re-animation centred on the great archaeological expeditions where place names stood for sites of unimaginable recovery: Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece, Pompeii. A body of literature arose around this reclamation, often imaginatively reconstituting the historical from its material remains. The unprecedented unearthing of the past also led to questions: how could material relics at once be past yet at the same time exist in the present; give rise to fantasies of reconnection; disorient the line between then and now? Writers from Pater to Nietzsche were preoccupied by these questions and also by the perceived dangers of being consumed by history—as well as the delusion of being able to reclaim it. Intriguingly, in our own moment, new versions of these debates have been taken up by Performance Studies scholars, on many counts an unlikely group of inheritors. Yet questions about the power of the object in the archive, its ability to summon the past, its place in the present, its relation to performance modalities, and the archiving of performance itself, in many ways bear the traces of these earlier discussions. Indeed, Mike Pearson and Michael Shanks’ Theatre/Archaeology (2001) situates itself at this border precisely in order to unpack the conceptual similarities of theatrical and archaeological projects, all of which gesture, as Rebecca Schneider (2011) has shown, to reenactment as a kind of end-point for rediscovery. When I put away my first book, Stratified Modernism (2009), about the relationship between archaeology and modernist writing, in order to start the second, Staging Modernist Lives, I thought—as we so often do—that I was putting one thing aside in order to start something entirely new: in this case, a treatise on the usefulness of biographical performance for modernist scholarship that includes three of my own plays about writers H. -
Tone Commander RT-3600 Tone-Rotary Dial Intercom
TONE COMMANDER SYSTEMS, INC. 4320 l'Oth Ave. N.E., Redmond, WA 980'2, U.s.A Telephone: (206) 883-3600, Telex: 32-8055 RT-3600 KEY TELEPHONE UNIT TONE AND ROTARY DIAL INTERCOM TECHNICAL INSTRUCTION Document #13-100444 REV. E April 1981 CONTENTS 1. GENERAL INFORMAnON 2. PRODUCT IDENTIFICAnON 3. INSTALLAnON 4. OPERATING INSTRUCnONS ,. SERVICE INFORMAnON 1. GENERAL INFORMATION , Description of Product Fig. 1 - RT-3600 Key Telephone Unit 1.01 The RT-3600 is a thirty-six code selective signaling unit. It provides • This unit must be installed by telephone common talk path intercom service for most company personnel or agents authorized Key Telephone Systems that use rotary, tone under Part 68 of FCC Rules and or mixed dialing. Regulations. Manual Changes • This unit must not be installed on coin operated or party line telephones. 1.02 This document is reissued to change the warranty date from 18 months to 36 • If this unit malfunctions, the telephone months. company may· disconnect service temporarily. If disconnection is Federal Communications Commission necessary, the telephone company must (FCC) Regulations attempt to notify the user in advance, 1.03 To comply with FCC regulations, the if possible. If not, they must notify the following requirements must be met: user as soon as they are able. • Upon installation, the FCC registration • Repair work on this unit must be done number of this unit must be reported to by TeS. the telephone company. Page 1 of 6 DOCUMENT 1113-100444 REV. E RT-3600 KEY TELEPHONE UNIT 2. PRODUCT IDENTIFICATION _ 2.05 Tone Decoder Features -- Application • Digital decoding process offers superior tone decoding. -
Wiretapping Smart Phones with Rotary–Dial Phones'
Wiretapping Smart Phones With Rotary–Dial Phones’ Law: How Canada’s Wiretap Law is in Desperate Need of Updating ANNE TURNER * “The task of adapting laws that were a product of the 1970s to a world of smartphones and social networks is a challenging and profoundly important one.” Justice Moldaver, R. v. Telus Communications Co. I. INTRODUCTION hen Canada’s wiretap law was enacted in 1974, the standard method of communication was a rotary dial phone, attached to W the wall within someone’s home. Phones the size of credit cards that would be carried in someone’s pocket everywhere they went, and that would contain information about someone’s entire life were the topic of science fiction. Computers were the size of entire houses and the notion that soon everyone would have at least one computer in their home by which they would be able to send messages to friends around the world and search for reams of information on any topic imaginable was beyond the average person’s wildest dreams. As a result, Canada’s wiretap law contemplated the electronic eavesdropping on one suspect’s land-line at their home or office to others using the same technology. While that was * LL.B. (2002), LL.M (2016). The views expressed in this paper are the author’s alone and do not represent the views or positions of the Public Prosecution Service of Canada or the Government of Canada. Portions of this paper were originally submitted as my Major Research Paper for my LL.M. at Osgoode. I would like to thank my husband, Paul Cooper, and family for their support while completing my LL.M as well as my colleagues at the Winnipeg PPSC office. -
How Women Wrote Modernism, 1900 to 1940 Course Number Spanish M98T Multiple Listed with Gender Studies M98T
Spanish/Gender Studies M98T General Education Course Information Sheet Please submit this sheet for each proposed course SPA/M 98T (Please cross list Spanish and Portuguese & Department & Course Number Women’s Studies, * Comp Lit as well if possible*) “Her Side of the Story: How Women ‘Wrote’ Course Title Modernism(1900-1940) 1 Check the recommended GE foundation area(s) and subgroups(s) for this course Foundations of the Arts and Humanities Literary and Cultural Analysis X Philosophic and Linguistic Analysis Visual and Performance Arts Analysis and Practice Foundations of Society and Culture Historical Analysis Social Analysis Foundations of Scientific Inquiry Physical Science With Laboratory or Demonstration Component must be 5 units (or more) Life Science With Laboratory or Demonstration Component must be 5 units (or more) 2. Briefly describe the rationale for assignment to foundation area(s) and subgroup(s) chosen. This course will help students: Understand the socio-historic conditions that led to the development of Modernist movements. Study canonical Modernist texts. Learn to distinguish fundamental aesthetic characteristics of early twentieth century Modernisms through the study of prose, poetry and visual arts. (using primary and secondary sources). Explore the close relationship between Modernist movements and women’s changing social roles in the early twentieth century. Illustrate women’s importance as agents of transnational and transatlantic Modernist movements. Critically engage texts and develop research and writing skills. 3. List faculty member(s) and teaching fellow who will serve as instructor (give academic rank): Professor Roberta Johnson Visiting Professor, UCLA Department of Spanish and Portuguese/ Professor Emerita, University of Kansas 4. -
UNIVERSITY of CALIFORNIA Los Angeles Fillia's Futurism Writing
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA Los Angeles Fillia’s Futurism Writing, Politics, Gender and Art after the First World War A dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Italian By Adriana Marie Baranello 2014 © Copyright by Adriana Marie Baranello 2014 ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION Fillia’s Futurism Writing, Politics, Gender and Art after the First World War By Adriana Marie Baranello Doctor of Philosophy in Italian University of California, Los Angeles, 2014 Professor Lucia Re, Co-Chair Professor Claudio Fogu, Co-Chair Fillia (Luigi Colombo, 1904-1936) is one of the most significant and intriguing protagonists of the Italian futurist avant-garde in the period between the two World Wars, though his body of work has yet to be considered in any depth. My dissertation uses a variety of critical methods (socio-political, historical, philological, narratological and feminist), along with the stylistic analysis and close reading of individual works, to study and assess the importance of Fillia’s literature, theater, art, political activism, and beyond. Far from being derivative and reactionary in form and content, as interwar futurism has often been characterized, Fillia’s works deploy subtler, but no less innovative forms of experimentation. For most of his brief but highly productive life, Fillia lived and worked in Turin, where in the early 1920s he came into contact with Antonio Gramsci and his factory councils. This led to a period of extreme left-wing communist-futurism. In the mid-1920s, following Marinetti’s lead, Fillia moved toward accommodation with the fascist regime. This shift to the right eventually even led to a phase ii dominated by Catholic mysticism, from which emerged his idiosyncratic and highly original futurist sacred art. -
Searchable PDF Index
TELEPHONE COLLECTORS INTERNATIONAL Telephone Collectors International is an organization of telephone collectors, hobbyists and historians who are helping to preserve the history of the telecommunications industry through the collection of telephones and telephone related material. Our collections represent all aspects of the industry; from the very first wooden prototypes that started the industry to the technological marvels that made the automatic telephone exchange possible. If any of this interests you, we invite you to join our organization. Look around and see what we have to offer. Thanks for stopping by! Telephone Collectors International website including become a member: http://www.telephonecollectors.org/ Questions or comments about TCI? Send e-mail to [email protected] ********************************************************************************* Books Recommended by the editors: Available now ... Old-Time Telephones! Design, History, and Restoration by Ralph O. Meyer ... 264pp Soft Cover 2nd Edition, Expanded and Revised ... A Schiffer Book with Price Guide for Collectors Available at Phoneco.com or Schiffer Publishing, Ltd., 4880 Lower Valley Rd, Atglen, PA 19310 e-mail: [email protected] ********************************************************************************** Coming Soon: TELEPHONE Dials and Pushbuttons Their History, Development and Usage by Stanley Swihart ... 2 volumes, 300 pp ea. Box 2818, Dublin, CA., 94568-0818. Phone 1 (925)-829-2728, e-mail [email protected] ********************************************************************************* -
A History of Modernist Poetry Edited by Alex Davis and Lee M
Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-03867-7 - A History of Modernist Poetry Edited by Alex Davis and Lee M. Jenkins Frontmatter More information A HISTORY OF MODERNIST POETRY A History of Modernist Poetry examines innovative anglophone poetries from decadence to the post-war period. The first of its three parts considers formal and contextual issues, including myth, politics, gender, and race, while the second and third parts discuss a wide range of individual poets, including Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, W. B. Yeats, Mina Loy, Gertrude Stein, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, and Marianne Moore, as well as key movements such as Imagism, Objectivism, and the Harlem Renaissance. This book also addresses the impact of both world wars on experimental poetries and the crucial role of magazines in disseminating and proselytising on behalf of poetic modernism. The collection con- cludes with a wide-ranging discussion of the inheritance of mod- ernism in recent writing on both sides of the Atlantic. alex davis is Professor of English at University College Cork, Ireland. He is the author of A Broken Line: Denis Devlin and Irish Poetic Modernism (2000) and many essays on anglophone poetry from decadence to the present day. He is co-editor, with Lee M. Jenkins, of Locations of Literary Modernism: Region and Nation in British and American Modernist Poetry (2000)andThe Cambridge Companion to Modernist Poetry (2007) and, with Patricia Coughlan, of Modernism and Ireland: The Poetry of the 1930s (1995). lee m. jenkins is Senior Lecturer in English at University College Cork, Ireland. She is the author of Wallace Stevens: Rage for Order (1999), The Language of Caribbean Poetry: Boundaries of Expression (2004), and The American Lawrence (2015). -
Dada and Surrealist Journals in the Mary Reynolds Collection
Documents of Dada and Surrealism: Dada and Surrealist Journals in the Mary Reynolds Collection... Page 1 of 26 Documents of Dada and Surrealism: Dada and Surrealist Journals in the Mary Reynolds Collection IRENE E. HOFMANN Ryerson and Burnham Libraries, The Art Institute of Chicago Dada 6 (Bulletin The Mary Reynolds Collection, which entered The Art Institute of Dada), Chicago in 1951, contains, in addition to a rich array of books, art, and ed. Tristan Tzara ESSAYS (Paris, February her own extraordinary bindings, a remarkable group of periodicals and 1920), cover. journals. As a member of so many of the artistic and literary circles View Works of Art Book Bindings by publishing periodicals, Reynolds was in a position to receive many Mary Reynolds journals during her life in Paris. The collection in the Art Institute Finding Aid/ includes over four hundred issues, with many complete runs of journals Search Collection represented. From architectural journals to radical literary reviews, this Related Websites selection of periodicals constitutes a revealing document of European Art Institute of artistic and literary life in the years spanning the two world wars. Chicago Home In the early part of the twentieth century, literary and artistic reviews were the primary means by which the creative community exchanged ideas and remained in communication. The journal was a vehicle for promoting emerging styles, establishing new theories, and creating a context for understanding new visual forms. These reviews played a pivotal role in forming the spirit and identity of movements such as Dada and Surrealism and served to spread their messages throughout Europe and the United States.