Stromberg-Carlson was a United States telecommunications equipment and electronics manufacturing company. It was formed in 1894 as a partnership by Swedish immigrants Alfred Stromberg and Androv Carls
1905 Stromberg-Carlson advertisement of telephone apparatus
The Western Electric model 500 telephone series was the standard domestic desk telephone set issued by the Bell System in North America from 1950 through the 1984 Bell System divestiture. The successo
Western Electric model 500 telephone made in the 1950s
By 1975, the model 500 design was essentially unchanged, but it used a revised dial, modular cords, and was available in a variety of new colors.
Internal components of a model 500 produced in 1951
The 425A network component of a model 500 produced in 1951