Push-button telephone
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A push-button telephone is a telephone that has buttons or keys for dialing a telephone number, in contrast to a rotary dial used in earlier telephones.
The Western Electric No. 2500, a typical American 12-button phone of the 1970s and early 80s
Gigaset A165 push-button cordless telephone using DECT with a base station
Iskra ETA85 pushbutton telephone with pulse-dialing keypad (Yugoslavia, 1988).
Heemaf 1955 type wall telephone by Philips with DC signaling pushbutton dial (Netherlands, Dec.1962).
Telephone
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A telephone, commonly shortened to phone, is a telecommunications device that enables two or more users to conduct a conversation when they are too far apart to be easily heard directly. A telephone c
Push-button telephone
…A push-button telephone is a telephone that has buttons or keys for dialing a telephone number, in contrast to a rotary dial used in earlier telephones. Western Electric experimented as early…
An old rotary dial telephone
Alexander Graham Bell's Telephone Patent Drawing (1876)
Replica of the telettrofono at Museo Nazionale Scienza e Tecnologia Leonardo da Vinci of Milan, Italy, invented by Antonio Meucci and credited by several sources as the first telephone.