Finished a huge scanning project of over 200 black and white photos showing all of the telephone infrastructure in San Francisco around 1912.
Enjoy browsing through these albums we created:
1912 San Francisco Telephone Exchange Plant Photos
JKL Museum of Telephony News and Updates
Automatic Electric Type 95 Panel Phones
We have put the final touch on our rotary dial AE panel phone by adding a paper mat. It took a while finding the right type of paper. It is not exactly the same as the original but the texture is very close and I think it looks pretty good.The touch tone version has an original mat.The last photo shows both AE type 95 panel phones on display at our museum.
September 24, 2019 Update
New photos have been added to the photo slider at the bottom of the homepage: https://www.jklmuseum.com/
Western Electric Product Catalog
We added an Western Electric Catalog to our website:
https://jklmuseum.com/we-catalog/
It isn’t dated but it looks like it is from the early 1970s.
Western Electric Step-by-Step Switch
Today we created a short YouTube video of our 400-line Western Electric Step-by-Step Switch.
Stromberg Carlson XY Switch
Today we created a short YouTube video of our 200-line Stromberg Carlson XY Switch.
The YouTube video shows the first testing of the system.
Here is some information about the Stromberg Carlson XY Switch:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stromberg-Carlson#Switching_systems
New JKL Museum Home Page
Today, December 19, 2017 we updated the homepage of the JKL Museum of Telephony website.
We hope you will enjoy the new photos.
The photo gallery below shows some of our previous progress.
New JKL Museum home page
Today, June 2, 2017 we updated the homepage of the JKL Museum of Telephony website.
We hope you will enjoy the new photos.
Jane has arrived
Jane has arrived; the Audichron speaking clock complete with Jane Barbe’s voice, has been safely delivered and set up as of 7/17/2016.
The short clip below shows “Jane” at a temporary location. Jane’s phone number will be published at a later date.
Photo Exhibit [2] – additional photos available
Photo Exhibit [2]: One Bell System. It works. “One hundred Years of Telephony in America” 1876 – 1976.
We added 19 additional photos which we acquired recently. We hope you will enjoy these extra photos. There are now 100 photos in total.