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telephone and was
I had had my name taken out of the telephone book, and this was partly because of a convict who had been discharged from Sing Sing and who called me night after night.
There had been something sinister about him that warned me against him, -- I had never felt that way about any other boy, -- but when he uttered his name on the telephone I had forgotten this and I was glad to do what he asked of me.
According to Friends, the unit was organized by John Snook, a former World War 2, commando who is vice president and general manager of the telephone company.
He realized that he had no idea where the telephone was.
Between the telephone and the wall plug there was sixty feet of cord, and when the conversation came to an end, Eugene carried the instrument with him the whole length of the apartment, to his bathroom, where it rang three more times while he was shaving and in the tub.
When the telephone rang on the day after Hino went down to the village, Rector had a hunch it would be Hino with some morsel of information too important to wait until his return, for there were few telephones in the village and the phone in Rector's office rarely rang unless it was important.
The manager of a movie theater received a telephone call from a woman who was equally indefinite.
The first known telephone line in Manchester was established in July 1883 between Burr and Manley's store at Manchester Depot and the Kent and Root Marble Company in South Dorset.
These must have been for local calls strictly, as in May 1900 the `` only long distance telephone '' in town was transferred from C. B. Carleton's to Young's shoe store.
Service running through Barnumville and to Bennington County towns east of the mountains was in the hands of the `` Gleason Telephone Company '' in 1925, but major supervision of telephone lines in Manchester was with the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company, which eventually gained all control.
Another veteran telephone operator was Edith Fleming Blackmer, who had been in the office forty years at the time of her death in 1960.
I tried to believe that what must have happened was that, restless, disturbed by this telephone call or whatever, she walked out in the night, as she had a habit of doing.
`` Well '' -- This time there was a long silence, while the telephone hummed faintly with a voiceless life.
In the mid-1870s, a form of amplitude modulation — initially called " undulatory currents "— was the first method to successfully produce quality audio over telephone lines.
Originally, the B ( wireline ) side license was usually owned by the local phone company, and the A ( non-wireline ) license was given to wireless telephone providers.
While working for the CTC, Erlang was presented with the classic problem of determining how many circuits were needed to provide an acceptable telephone service.
The license in favour of BVI Cable was controversial, as the Regulator had announced in advance that only three licenses in total would be issued, and BVI Cable TV had crumbling cable television infrastructure, and was in no position to office cellular telephone services ( and to date, has not offered any cellular telephone services, or anything other than simple cable television ).
This was a decrease from 2006 in which 35, 000 main telephone lines were in use.

telephone and study
In the early 1980s, Philips Research labs at Redhill, Surrey did a brief study into small, cheap keyboards for entering text on a telephone.
In 1882, Gilbert had a telephone installed in his home and at the prompt desk at the Savoy Theatre so that he could monitor performances and rehearsals from his home study.
The center was developed in conjunction with Ohio Bell Telephone and allowed self-paced language study using a series of automated tapes and prompts that were delivered over the telephone.
Goroawase substitutions are well known as mnemonics, notably in the selection of memorable telephone numbers for commercial services, and in the memorization of numbers such as years in the study of history.
Shortly after World War I, mysterious, often defective behaviour in telegraph, radio and electric power and telephone lines began to persuade engineers and scientists that the electrical geophysics of the Earth needed more study.
Phreaking is a slang term coined to describe the activity of a culture of people who study, experiment with, or explore telecommunication systems, such as equipment and systems connected to public telephone networks.
Named for Ida Cates, Manitoba's first woman telephone operator in the 1880s, " Project Ida " was part of a wider rollout of advanced cable technologies that MTS had been planning since 1978 to study ways to use up the bandwidth capabilities of newer cable systems.
Inventor Alexander Graham Bell sent two assistants to the Altoona shops in 1875 to study the feasibility of installing telephone lines.
Hitler's large study had a telephone switchboard room.
Frankfurter found Gustloff's address easily, as it was listed in the phonebook and went to the Gustloff home ; Gustloff's wife, Hedwig Gustloff, received him and showed him into the study, asking him to wait since her husband was on the telephone but would be with him presently.
In 1907, the government appointed telephone expert Francis Dagger to study the issue, and the result, in 1908, was Saskatchewan's famous solution of letting rural residents form mutual or co-operative companies to provide local phone services.
The study was conducted by Elton Mayo and W. Lloyd Warner between 1931 and 1932 on a group of fourteen men who put together telephone switching equipment.
In the 1960s Batman series, Gordon was played by Neil Hamilton, and is portrayed as not only having the Bat-Signal at his disposal, but also an red emergency hotline telephone ( known as the Bat-Phone ) that connects directly to the Batcave, the Batmobile and to Gordon Bruce Wayne's study ; Gordon's switchboard operators are twice shown to be able to trunk incoming lines into the Batphone circuit, enabling him to telephone Batman from remote locations ( ironically once from Wayne Manor, and the other from a phone booth adjacent to that being used by Bruce Wayne ).
Daf Yomi can be studied alone, with a chavruta ( study partner ), in a daily shiur ( class ) led by a rabbi or teacher, via a telephone shiur, CD-ROM, or audio and online resources.
Moran has represented the $ 200 million salmon farming industry in Atlantic Canada ; was a strategist behind a lobbying campaign in response to the closure of a Canadian Forces Base that enabled the community obtain operating control of a valuable economic asset ; led a Federal / Provincial Government Industrial Adjustment Committee to deal with the closure of the Campbell Soup plant ; managed a hospital restructuring study for the Ontario Ministry of Health ; developed a strategic plan to position the telecommunications industry as an important voice in the lobby for competition in long distance telephone services ; managed a Feasibility Study – Business Plan Report prepared to preserve a historic Canadian Pacific Railway Station ; and developed a strategic plan to position a not-for-profit recycling business as a leading edge environmental and sustainable development company.
:" In a telephone interview, Jon Pedersen, research director for the 2004 study, said several factors probably account for researchers ' different findings.
Daf Yomi can be studied alone, with a chavruta ( study partner ), in a daily shiur ( class ) led by a rabbi or teacher, via a telephone shiur, CD-ROM, or audio and online resources.
* A Spanish study published in 2011 randomized 52 people hospitalized for heart failure to follow-up with usual care, 52 to home visits, 52 to telephone follow-up, and 52 to an in-hospital heart failure unit.
This same year HP proposed a study group be formed to look into standardizing Ethernet on telephone wires.
Counselling services by telephone, fax and e-mail are available in the university and at the study centres.
On very rare occasions, an extremely simple, low risk study might be monitored almost exclusively by telephone except for the startup and closeout visits.
However a 2000 study established that over 98 % of psychologists who were members of the American Psychological Association used the telephone as a regular means of therapy, including 69 % who conducted psychotherapy on the telephone and 79 % who used it for emergency consultations.

telephone and ringing
The telecommunications infrastructure in Gibraltar is modelled on that of the UK ; for example ; the ringing tone of fixed telephone lines is identical to that of the UK, although that of mobile phones may resemble that of mainland Europe, with long tones.
One night he hears a telephone ringing in someone's home, and suddenly realizes that someone else is alive on Mars.
In telephony, ringdown is a method of signaling an operator in which telephone ringing current is sent over the line to operate a lamp or cause the operation of a self-locking relay known as a drop.
A ringer equivalency number of 1 represents the loading effect of a single " traditional " telephone ringing circuit, such as that within the Western Electric Model 500 telephone.
* Other assistive devices include those that use flashing lights to signal events such as a ringing telephone, a doorbell, or a fire alarm.
When he becomes incapacitated due to a fall, he returns to the family home to stay with his eccentric siblings-sister Rose and brothers Porter and Charles-whose odd habits include alphabetizing the groceries in the kitchen cabinets and ignoring the ringing telephone.
The original opening of the show begins with a ringing telephone on Bob's office desk, which he answers with a simple, " Hello?
He says the music and telephone ringing were all illusions.
Caller ID ( caller identification, CID ), also called calling line identification ( CLID ), calling number delivery ( CND ), calling number identification ( CNID ) or calling line identification presentation ( CLIP ), is a telephone service, available in analog and digital phone systems and most voice over Internet Protocol ( VoIP ) applications, that transmits a caller's number to the called party's telephone equipment during the ringing signal, or when the call is being set up but before the call is answered.
The ringing signal sent to a customer's telephone is 90 volts AC at a frequency of 20 hertz in North America.
A ringing signal is an electric telephony signal that causes a telephone to alert the user to an incoming call.
The F relay was used to detect a ring trip, and when activated, switched the called telephone from the ringing supply to the audio path.
The ringing supply consists of an AC signal of approximately 75 V superimposed on a direct current ( DC ) signal of approximately 48 V. Telephone ringers are connected in series with a capacitor, blocking the DC but allowing the AC to pass through and sound the ringer when the telephone is in an on-hook condition.
** a ringing tone signifying that the calling party has yet to answer the telephone
The verification tone is added so that telephone subscribers will not be able to easily use the ringback system as an " intercom ," to call other extensions of their own phone line by simply initiating a ringback test and waiting for the phone to stop ringing and converse when someone has answered the extension.
A practical effect is a special effect in which a prop appears to work in a situation where it obviously could not in real life ( such as a ringing telephone on stage ).
Hyacinth informs anyone within earshot of her ringing telephone that the caller is " bound to be someone important " ( from Series Three onwards ) and will answer the phone with " The Bouquet residence, the lady of the house speaking!
This level of attention is attracted by a ringing telephone, or other unexpected occurrence.
He promises his " birth " will be signaled by every telephone on the planet ringing simultaneously.
Although she tells him that Gaby is at his mother's house, he becomes enraged and assaults her, but is interrupted by the telephone ringing.
The Penguin Cafe Orchestra's most famous piece may be " Telephone and Rubber Band ", which is based around a tape loop of a UK telephone ringing tone intersected with an engaged ( busy ) tone, accompanied by the twanging of a rubber band.
The opening credits showed Reed answering a telephone ringing off the hook.

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