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Feb. 29 Phones Aweigh. Did telephone customers in 1879 have heftier arms than we have today? That's what Western Electric Company's Laura Manno Wonders as she makes a weighty discovery: On the right, Vintage-1879 handset weighs in at one pound ten ounces; on the left, a contemporary handset registers ten ounces. The 19th-centuary handset had a transmitter and receiver attached to thick steel; today's model is made essentially of a plastic blend

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