Telephone
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Telephone service; Telephones.
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
DuPont Company telephone operators photomontage
Collection
Accession: 2013-202
Abstract:
E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company is a chemical company. This item is a photomontage of five images, each image depicts a group of women working in a small telephone operator room.
Dates:
1916-1982
James Gordon Ferguson Bell Laboratories memoir
Collection
Accession: 2843
Abstract:
James Gordon Ferguson (1900-1985) was an electrical engineer who worked at Bell Telephone Laboratories for forty-two years. He was the author of numerous technical papers and was one of the leads during the 1940s in developing the Number Five Crossbar Switching System (5XB switch), which brought telephone service to rural areas. This item is an unpublished memoir entitled "Me and My Bell System (As I Remember Us)," circa 1965. It details Ferguson's career and professional life.
Dates:
circa 1965
