Telephone History

• Telephone / Telecommunications Museums:
  • The BT Museum is now closed.
  • ``Telemuseum'' - Swedish Telecommunications Museum

• List of STD codes of the pre-BT era

• 1960s?-vintage recording of ``tones you might encounter when dialling abroad'' (1Mb)
  
  This was on 021 616 0039 until recently (around Jan 1995?) but is clearly much older than that. Recorded by Derek Hill <D.Hill@umds.ac.uk>.

• Michael Salter's Strowger Telecomms Page
  
  - complete with recordings of Strowger equipment in operation! Ah, the memories! Also has a lot of information on numbering schemes, etc.

• Chuck Eby's (American) telephone history page

• Hell's Bells - A Radio History of the Telephone
  
  - a radio programme made by Pacific Multimedia for Western Public Radio (California, USA). To my British ears it sounds like a television programme without the picture, but it's none the less interesting.
  Warning: over 4 hours of audio - that's over 113 Mb in .au format!

• Telephone collectors' associations:
  • Antique Telephone Collectors' Assoc. (USA)
  • Antique Telephone Collector's News (Japan)

• ``Phone Phreaking'':
  • British phone phreaking in 1972
    
    - an article from the Sunday Times of 15th October 1972, typed in by ``M.W.'' from a microfilm copy which is illegible in parts; spelling corrected by me

  • Cap'n Crunch's Home Page

• Larry Rice's excellent page on Telegrams and Telegram-Form Collecting

• A brief history of UK telecoms and Oftel

• Russell Whitworth's page of historical Telecomms Quotes