Telephone Switching Equipment Demonstrated During Student Communications Tour, Fall 1965
About This Item
Close-up view of electromechanical telephone switching equipment photographed during a communications-related educational activity in Fall 1965. Wiring terminals, relay components, and switching modules characteristic of mid-twentieth-century telecommunications systems are visible.
- Identifier
- TP-ATA-2464
- Date
- Fall 1965
- Context
Historical significance
What makes this image particularly valuable today is that this entire technology has essentially disappeared. In 1965, telephone calls were often routed through enormous rooms filled with relay-based switching equipment like this. Today the same function is handled by compact digital systems.
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- Geographic Coverage
- San Francisco, CA
- Temporal Coverage
- 1960s
- Type
- Still Image
- Format
- Negative
- Source
- San Francisco State University Archives
- Rights
- Public
- Views
- 66
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