Western Electric type 100 desk telephone
date: label: date made
content: 1928
name: label: maker
content: Western Electric
notes: label: Description
content: Throughout much of the 20th Century, Western Electric designed and manufactured most of the equipment used by the AT&T Bell Telephone Company. This model 100, A-type desk telephone was made by Western Electric in 1928 and featured a so-called “French” handset. For both technical and commercial reasons most Bell Company telephone sets featured separate transmitters and receivers until the mid 1920s. By that time designs that combined the transmitter and receiver into a single handset gained popularity in France and phone with that feature became known by the term “French phone.”
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content: Work and Industry: Electricity
label: Exhibition
content: American Enterprise
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: from Bell Telephone Laboratories
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: EM.315082.64
label: catalog number
content: 315082.64
label: accession number
content: 215003
objectType: label: Object Name
content: telephone set
label: Object Name
content: telephone
label: Object Name
content: desk telephone
label: Other Terms
content: telephone set; Telephones; Desk
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: cloth (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 3/4 in x 8 7/8 in x 5 3/8 in; 14.605 cm x 22.5425 cm x 13.6525 cm