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  Red telephone box - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The red telephone box, a public telephone kiosk designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, was a once familiar sight on the streets of the United Kingdom.
The red telephone box was the result of a competition in 1924 to design a new grander kiosk.
K6 telephone boxes eventually began to be replaced in large numbers in the early 1990s.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Red_telephone_box   (641 words)

  
 Telephone - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The early history of the telephone is a confusing morass of claim and counterclaim, which was not clarified by the huge mass of lawsuits which hoped to resolve the patent claims of individuals.
The lover's telephone (or string telephone) has also been known for centuries, connecting two diaphragms with string or wire which transmits the sound from one to the other by vibrations along the string and not through electric current.
On speaking into the mouthpiece, the iron diaphragm vibrates with the voice in the magnetic field of the pole, and thereby excites the undulatory currents in the coil, which, after travelling through the wire to the distant place, are received in an identical apparatus.
encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /telephone.htm   (3527 words)

  
 Telephone - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Most telephones operate by means of electric signals over a complex public switched telephone network of equipment which allows almost any phone user to speak to almost any other.
There are four principal means by which telephone signals are transmitted: through a traditional landline which uses physical dedicated wire connections; wireless or Radiotelephony, which transmits messages using either analog or digital radio signals; satellite telephones which bounce signals off of telecommunications satelites; and voice over internet protocol (VOIP) telephones, which use broadband internet cables.
The very early history of the telephone is a confusing morass of claim and counterclaim, which was not clarified by the huge mass of lawsuits which hoped to resolve the patent claims of individuals.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Telephone   (1295 words)

  
 Station Information - Red telephone box
The red telephone box, a public telephone kiosk designed by Giles Gilbert Scott, was a once familiar sight on the streets of the United Kingdom.
In 1935 K6 was designed to commemorate the silver jubilee of King George V K6 was the first standard telephone kiosk to be used throughout the country.
K6 telephone boxes eventually began to be replaced in large numbers in the early 1990s Thousands of old K6 kiosks were sold off at public auction.
www.stationinformation.com /encyclopedia/r/re/red_telephone_box.html   (549 words)

  
 Learn more about Telephone in the online encyclopedia.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
In the United States, the Bell System was vertically integrated: it fully or partially owned the telephone companies that provided service to about 80% of the telephones in the country and also owned Western Electric, which manufactured or purchased virtually all the equipment and supplies used by the local telephone companies.
This is a telephone switch that defines its own local phone number range, which is commonly embedded in a public local phone number range.
Cordless telephones consist of a base unit that connects to the land-line system and also communicates with remote handsets by low power radio.
www.onlineencyclopedia.org /t/te/telephone.html   (1035 words)

  
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Red River Telephone located in Abercrombie, North Dakota, is an independent telephone cooperative.
Red River Telephone and it's subsidiary Red River Telecom, Inc. provide telephone services to 11 exchanges in southeastern North Dakota and west central Minnesota.
Red River Telephone also provides local Internet access to 13 communities in the southern Red River valley.
www.rrt.net   (158 words)

  
 Surveillance and countermeasures from Marty Kaiser Electronics
Assuming the unit is connected to an outgoing telephone line the negotiator may either communicate with the barricade area or connect the RED telephone to the outgoing line and make calls.
Remove the red/green wires from the red terminals and connect the fl/yellow wires to the red terminals.
If the touch-tone telephone is of an older variety, dialing may be stopped by reversing the polarity of the line with the TOUCH +/- switch.
www.martykaiser.com /7080~1.htm   (941 words)

  
 British Red Telephone Boxes for Sale
To many, the red telephone box is as symbolic of Britain as fish and chips or a stick of Blackpool Rock.
After being de-greased, the K6 is then painted with 1 coat of red oxide primer followed by at least 3 coats of red enamel.
The bright red colour of the K2 was first seen on the streets in 1926 but proved to be too costly to introduce nationwide.
www.eurocosm.com /Application/Products/Telephone-boxes/red-phone-box-1GB.asp   (747 words)

  
 Telephone transmitters and recording devices
telephone is in use and usually loads the line very little when not in use,
Red or green wire must be disconnected at some
installed in the telephone itself, but this sually considerably limits the range.
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 CONVERTING OLD GPO/BT PHONES TO PLUG & SOCKET
The original 200 and 300 type telephone line cords were restrained by a cotton tie.
Red of line cord to L2 - move the white wire of the telephone cord from T to L2 and remove strap
Red of line cord to L2 - move the white wire of the telephone cord from T to L2 Remove strap T - L2, which is under the board.
web.ukonline.co.uk /freshwater/pstconv1.htm   (2230 words)

  
 The Farmer's Novelty Telephone Notebook: TeleR
Red Dog is a beer made by Plank Road Brewery.
Red gas pump phone with 10# memory plus 3 speed dial memory buttons, top light flashes and station bell sounds when phone rings.
This is a rare telephone and is featured on the cover of the new Schiffer book about novelty telephones.
www.geocities.com /SoHo/Museum/1192/telr.html   (627 words)

  
 London Red Telephone Box   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
They were very recognisable from a distance, were a nice sealed shelter from the sound and weather, so that a call could be made in a pleasant atmosphere, even though one was on the sidewalk.
It was a most graceful affair, even providing a supporting cast of telephone directories, with a little table.
The original red boxes were a brilliant idea and should never have been touched.
www.geocities.com /londondestruction/phone.html   (388 words)

  
 Telephone at opensource encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The very early constructions of the telephone was based on sound transportation through air or other physical media rather than generated electric signals from speech.
Fixed phone lines are usually copper wirelines which form a circuit between the subscriber and a subscriber-line interface.
The SLI provides dial-tone, and converts voice and dialed numbers to digital signals, which are sent on a few wires to the exchange.
wiki.tatet.ru /en/Telephone.html   (4341 words)

  
 Red Phone Directory @ ITS: Information Technology Services - Vanderbilt University - Nashville
The "Emergency Red Phone System" is designed to provide communication coverage in the event of a phone system outage.
The Red telephones, located at strategic sites are served by an alternative telephone switch, as opposed to the telephone switch that serves normal telephones in the same area.
The number of the Red telephone is an extension associated with that particular telephone switch.
its.vanderbilt.edu /voice/redphone_dir.php   (240 words)

  
 Gifts.co.uk - Timothy Richards Red Telephone Box Single doorway bookend   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The red telephone box has become a British icon.
Suffice to say the winner was this pattern of telephone box, the K2 design.
The most common type of telephone box is the K6 or Jubilee kiosk introduced in 1936 and became Britain's standard kiosk for over 30 years.
www.gifts.co.uk /acatalog/trtelbox.html   (94 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited | Today's issues | Red telephone boxes
BT is deciding whether to maintain the traditional red telephone box.
No one, it seems, wants to look after the much-maligned, pee-smelling, fag-stained rain shelter that is Britain's red telephone box.
Suggested ideas to produce revenue from the loss-making telephone boxes, each of which cost about £2,000 a year to maintain, include making them into mobile phone masts.
www.guardian.co.uk /netnotes/article/0,6729,1427372,00.html?gusrc=rss   (349 words)

  
 More on 'Red Telephone Booth Display Cabinet'.
To progress your search for the term red telephone booth display cabinet, exploring the Connected Earth website is likely to help you.
It's a complete multi-media experience, where you'll be able to choose from clearly-written stories, more in-depth study, images of exhibits in 3D, written or oral stories from those who used to work in the telecommunications industry, short film sequences, and interactive explanations or simple animations of the way that technology operates.
Connected Earth is the place to further your exploration of the term red telephone booth display cabinet.
www.connected-earth.com /content/red_telephone_booth_2.html   (313 words)

  
 Red telephone boxes
Another pair of such classics are the red telephone boxes and red post boxes that have graced hamlets, villages, towns and cities around the UK for generations.
The red phone box, which many of us had out first kiss in, which featured in so many classic films and TV programmes, which added such a beauty to our street scenery, was in danger of disappearing completely.
Meanwhile, locals, councils and tourists began to complain to the telephone companies about the loss of their beloved red telephone boxes and eventually the telephone companies realised they had got it wrong.
www.retrosellers.com /features46.htm   (538 words)

  
 The Mobile Phone Is Killing The Red Telephone Booth In The UK
the distinctive red telephone booths are quickly disappearing, making it more and more difficult for tourists to get a picture in front of one.
AFP - Dominant telecoms operator Philippine Long Distance Telephone (PLDT) said it expects the growth of the domestic mobile phone business to ease in 2005 as the subscriber base tops 40 percent of the population.
AFP - British mobile telephone operator mmO2 reported its first annual profit since it was hived off from the country's former state-owned monopoly British Telecom over two years ago.
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 Looking at 'Red English Telephone Booth'.
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This is a totally multi-media presentation, which gives you the power to choose from comprehensive narratives, more detailed study, three dimensional pictures of objects, written or spoken stories from people who worked in the telecommunications industry in former times, film clips, and simple animations or interactive explanations of how technology works.
Connected Earth is the right place to further your study of the term red english telephone booth.
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 Gifts.co.uk Red Telephone Box - Bookend   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
An architectural model of the traditional British Red telephone Box
Only traditional materials are used - the body of each model being made in plaster with additional detail in etched brass, lead and sometimes stained glass and copper. All designs are well researched using a combination of original plans and detailed photographs.
The red telephone box has become a British icon. It was designed by Giles Gilbert Scott for a competition in 1924 to find a suitable standard pattern of kiosk that might be introduced throughout Britain.
www.gifts.co.uk /acatalog/info_trtelbox.html   (143 words)

  
 K6 Red telephone box for restoration
I am selling it on behalf of a friend and he has sent me these pictures and some information.
It has no cracks in the castings at all and and he has the three "TELEPHONE" Panels to the top.
It has an as new painted glassed door (Pictures will be included as soon as I have them).
www.antiquetelephones.co.uk /en-gb/p_55.html   (168 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | England | Cornwall | Red telephone box gets protection
A traditional red telephone box has finally been given protection after a campaign by a group of people in Falmouth.
It is the latest of the UK's remaining red phone boxes to be protected as buildings of special architectural or historic interest.
Jenny Gayle, a conservation officer with Carrick District Council, said: "It is the archetypal telephone box.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/low/england/cornwall/3390699.stm   (228 words)

  
 Telephony: Area code red - telephone area code; North American Numbering Plan - includes related article on customers' ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
In a number of areas, the number shortage is so severe that administrators are unable to fill all the open requests for numbers.
The most notable of these changes was implemented in 1995, when area codes were enabled to use a number other than 1 or 0 as the middle digit.
No telephone number can begin with a 1, for example, and no seven-digit number can begin with 411 or 911.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0TPY/is_n18_v231/ai_18898732   (1532 words)

  
 New York Daily News - City News - Daily News Special Report: 'Red star of death'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The only tracking system is the red "Telephone Fire" stamp on 699 paper folders.
She married a second Telephone Co. fire veteran, only to see him suffer bladder cancer in 2002.
Deborah Wallace, an expert in environmental health issues for Consumers Union, the publisher of Consumer Reports, said there is no doubt in her mind that PVC and the Telephone Co. fire caused a cancer cluster.
www.nydailynews.com /news/local/story/173384p-151127c.html   (1100 words)

  
 Techdirt:The Mobile Phone Is Killing The Red Telephone Booth In The UK
While there have been plenty of stories about how mobile phones are killing off payphones, nowhere is such a story as upsetting to people as in the UK, where the distinctive red telephone booths are quickly disappearing, making it more and more difficult for tourists to get a picture in front of one.
While there are a variety of reasons for the removal of such phone booths, including accessibility problems for the disabled, the main reason is simply that they're increasingly obsolete when everyone has a mobile phone.
the distinctive red telephone booths are quickly disappearing
www.techdirt.com /articles/20040622/1131249_F.shtml   (424 words)

  
 BuffaloTrax.com - Featured Artists - The Red Telephone   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The saga of The Red Telephone is a familiar one: Cool band signs to major label; cool band debuts with an unrepresentative record; cool band gets lost in the corporate shuffle; cool band parts ways with label.
Within no time flat, The Red Telephone was ringing like a fire alarm--semi-finalists at WBCN's annual "Rock and Roll Rumble," the band released a one-off single with Time Bomb Recordings before signing with Warner Bros., all after being together for less than a year.
Though the Red Telephone has been described as "psychedelic" --after all, the band's name was taken from a song on Forever Changes, Love's classic psychedelic LP - Matt feels that the term can be misleading.
www.buffalotrax.com /artists/the_red_telephone.asp   (1126 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | BT plots end of the line for phone boxes
Wait long enough by a public telephone box and someone will walk past and make a call.
But in the age of mobile phones, Blackberrys and Wi-Fi communication, the phonebox is liable to function only as a backdrop.
And it also faces competition from rivals able to choose where to site their phoneboxes, without having to fund ones few use.
www.guardian.co.uk /uk_news/story/0,,1426806,00.html   (531 words)

  
 Ink 19 :: The Red Telephone   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Such is the case with The Red Telephone and their latest release, Cellar Songs.
I recently had a chance to talk with Matt Hutton, the lead singer and lyricist of The Red Telephone, regarding their album and the practice of songwriting.
In closing, while Matt was the one interviewed, this should not detract from the other members of the band, who substantially contribute to The Red Telephone's sound.
www.ink19.com /issues/april2001/inkSpots/redTelephone.html   (1157 words)

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