Interior View of Telephone Switching Equipment, Fall 1965
About This Item
Detail of a telephone exchange switching frame displaying the complex wiring and relay components used to route telephone calls during the mid-twentieth century.
- Identifier
- TP-ATA-2465
- Date
- Fall 1965
- Context
Historical Context
Before digital switching, telephone networks depended on enormous electromechanical systems. Calls were routed through relay and switching equipment connected by thousands of carefully organized wires. Facilities like this formed the backbone of local and long-distance telephone service throughout the United States during the 1950s and 1960s.
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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
- 57
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