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  • Alexander Graham Bell and the New York City–Chicago telephone link In telephone: Manual switching

    …a central switching point, or telephone exchange, than it was to run wires between all the instruments. In 1878 the first telephone exchange was installed in New Haven, Connecticut, permitting up to 21 customers to reach one another by means of a manually operated central switchboard. The manual switchboard was…

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  • Alexander Graham Bell and the New York City–Chicago telephone link In telephone: The switching network

    A local office (or end office) was a switching centre that connected directly to the customers’ telephone instruments. A tandem office was one that served a cluster of local offices. Atoll office was involved in switching traffic over long-distance (or toll) circuits.

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