The First Modern Rotary Dial Telephone 1909

Photograph of the first automatic telephone exchange system (modern telephone), installed by the German Post Office in 1909. The original caption explained: Each subscriber is his own exchange, moving the clocklike face of the telephone until the right sequence of numbers has been called

1111 Automatic Dial Explained Hello Installed Rotary Sequence Subscriber

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