Title: touch tone phone Category:Literature / English Details: Words: 634 | Pages: 2.7 (approximately 235 words/page)
touch tone phone
During the 1960’s the invention of the touch-tone telephone influences the way we in the 1990’s think about accomplishments. Before the touch – tone telephone there were rotary dial phones. With Kappel as boss of AT&T new customer equipment came about. In 1963 the first offering of the touch-tone service became available (Brooks, 1976). This service featured telephones with push buttons instead of rotary dials. In 1965, the Trimline, which had the dial built into the handset, proved to be an immediate hit (Brooks, 1976). The touch – tone phone …showed first 85 words of 634 total…
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…showed last 85 words of 634 total…influences the way we think about accomplishments today. Before the touch – tone telephone there were rotary dial telephones. The touch – tone phone is important to everyone today because it is an easier way of dialing and without it we wouldn’t have cellular phones or portable phones.
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Rogers, T. (1980). You and your telephone. Indiana : Howard W. Sams & Co. Pp. 29-32.
