Maitland is also home to the Art & History Museums-Maitland, which includes the Maitland Art Center ( formerly the Research Studio, 1937 ), which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places for its unique Mayan Revival and Fantasy Architecture ; the Maitland Historical Museum ; the Telephone Museum ; the William H. Waterhouse House Museum ; and the Carpentry Shop Museum.

* Telephone Museum

Leslie is the site of the Georgia Rural Telephone Museum, a large collection of antique telephone equipment.

* Bryant Pond Telephone Museum

File: K1 Telephone Box, Lowestoft Transport Museum, 13th June 2009. JPG | K1 Telephone Box, Lowestoft Transport Museum

File: RAC roadside Telephone Box, Lowestoft Transport Museum 13th June 2009. JPG | RAC roadside Telephonebox

Telephone users within a designated area may call an inward WATS telephone number without having to pay a toll charge — the recipient pays for the calls at a flat rate or other predetermined rate.

He took a job with Independent Telephone Company, which manufactured radios, and left that job and university when his father — the sports editor of the Toronto Daily Star — told him that the Star was going to start its own radio station.

To control big business, the New Deal policymakers preferred federal and state regulation — controlling the rates and telephone services provided by American Telephone & Telegraph Company ( AT & T ), for example — and by building up countervailing power in the form of labor unions.

When the New York Telephone Company started its Dial-a-Joke line in 1974, over three million people called in one month to hear 30 seconds of Youngman's material — the most ever for a comedian.

File: StMartinsLeGrand-PoliceCallBox. jpg | Police Telephone Post ( non-working ) still at St. Martin's Le Grand, London — painted ( incorrectly ) in ' Met ' dark blue.

During the 1980s building boom, Las Colinas became a popular location for relocating companies and office developers, attracting many corporations — including the global headquarters of four Fortune 500 companies and offices of more than 30 others, such as Exxon Mobil Corporation, GTE Telephone ( now Verizon ), Kimberly-Clark and Associates Corp.

The horn antenna at Bell Telephone Laboratories in Holmdel, New Jersey, was constructed in 1959 to support Project Echo — the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's passive communications satellite project, which used orbiting aluminized plastic balloons as reflectors to bounce radio signals from one point on Earth to another.

The main incumbent local exchange carrier in 613 is Bell Canada, although there are some five independent companies serving rural exchanges — the Lansdowne Rural Telephone Company serving Lansdowne ; the North Frontenac Telephone Company serving Sharbot Lake and Parham ; the North Renfrew Telephone Company serving Beachburg, Westmeath, and the area outside of Pembroke ; the Roxborough Telephone Company serving Moose Creek ; and the Westport Telephone Company serving Westport.

It is probably with the neighborhoods of Eltingville and Great Kills in mind that New York Telephone named a telephone exchange " Honeywood " in the 1920s ; this exchange, which also served Annadale and Huguenot, was retired from service in 1959, but a local business establishment — Honeywood Liquors on Hylan Boulevard — remained for decades as a reminder of the exchange's existence.

* Western Electric Telephone Models — A look at the evolution of Western Electric's dial telephones

* Benita Hume — Telephone receptionist ( uncredited )

Telephone triage involves ranking clients ' health problems according to their urgency, educating and advising clients, and making safe, effective, and appropriate dispositions — all by telephone.

In 1879 a telephone exchange was installed at 101 Leadenhall Street by The Telephone Company Ltd. ( Bell's Patents ) — one of the first in London.

* 501 ( c )( 12 ) — Benevolent Life Insurance Associations, Mutual Ditch or Irrigation Companies, Mutual or Cooperative Telephone Companies, etc.

* Joseph R. Hanley, Senior Vice President — Technology, Services and Strategy, Telephone and Data Systems

* Peter L. Sereda, Senior Vice President — Finance and Treasurer, Telephone and Data Systems

* Scott H. Williamson, Senior Vice President — Acquisitions and Corporate Development, Telephone and Data Systems

* Cle Elum Telephone Museum-This museum was established in 1966 when the Bell Telephone Company deeded its former central office building to the Cle Elum Historical Society.

Associated with those events in the present day are the Bell Family's museum home on Tutela Heights Road, now called the Bell Homestead National Historic Site, and the Bell Telephone Memorial ( below ), dedicated by the Governor General of Canada in 1917 to mark the invention of the telephone in Brantford.

Network effects were a central theme in the arguments of Theodore Vail, the first post patent president of Bell Telephone, in gaining a monopoly on US telephone services.

The electronic repeaters were designed by the Bell Telephone Laboratories of the United States and they were flexible and were inserted into the cable at intervals-a total of 51 repeaters in the central section.

RRTS uses channelized radio to provide radiotelephone services such as Basic Exchange Telephone Radio Service between a fixed subscriber location and a remote central office, private line service between a two fixed locations or interconnection between two or more central offices.

In U. S. telecommunications, a Wide Area Telephone Service ( WATS ) is a long distance service offering for customer dial-type telecommunications between a given customer station and stations within specified geographic rate areas employing a single telephone line between the customer user location and the serving central office.

Telephone numbers for wired telephones working out of the Rancho Murieta central office follow the format ( 916 ) 354-xxxx and 314-xxxx.

The memorial itself has been used as a central fixture for many civic events and remains an important part of Brantford's history, helping the city style itself as ' The Telephone City '.

The Franklin Center is a 60-story skyscraper completed in 1989 as the AT & T Corporate Center to consolidate the central region headquarters of the American Telephone & Telegraph Company ( AT & T ).

* Telephone companies often give names to their central offices.

* Telephone switch, the central part of a telephone system

More typical systems incorporate a digital telephone dialer unit that will dial a central station ( or some other location ) via the Public Switched Telephone Network ( PSTN ) and raise the alarm, either with a synthesized voice or increasingly via an encoded message string that the central station decodes.

Nearly all of the township is in the Cincinnati Bell Telephone Company's Hamilton exchange, but the northwest and north central sections are in Verizon's Oxford exchange.

A Class 5 telephone switch is a telephone switch or telephone exchange in the Public Switched Telephone Network located at the local telephone company's central office, directly serving subscribers.

The memorial itself has been used as a central fixture for many civic events and remains an important part of Brantford's history, helping the city style itself as ' The Telephone City '.

In 1947, on the centenary of Bell's birth, the Telephone Pioneers of America dedicated a historical marker on the side of one of the buildings, the Franklin School, that Bell and Tainter used for their successful trial.

* Bell Telephone Memorial, a major monument dedicated to the invention of the telephone

Telephone companies have dedicated phone numbers connected to mirror timeservers that also relay the precise time.

* Telephone calls abandoned should not be re-dialled for at least 72 hours, unless a dedicated person is available.