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14 June 1878: The Telephone Company (Bell's Patents) Ltd. is registered in London. Opened in London on 21 August 1879, it is Europe's first telephone exchange, followed a couple of weeks later by one in Manchester. 12 September 1878: the Bell Telephone Company sues Western Union for infringing Bell's patents.
From the introduction of the telephone in the late 1870s, [5] to the early 1990s, telephone numbers in most of the United Kingdom were usually shown with a written exchange name followed by the subscriber number, e.g. 'Mallaig 10' or 'Aberdeen 43342'. This allowed calls to be placed initially through the operator and later by using local or ...
This is a list of international dialing prefixes used in various countries for direct dialing of international telephone calls.These prefixes are typically required only when dialling from a landline, while in GSM-compliant mobile phone (cell phone) systems, only the symbol + before the country code may be used [citation needed] irrespective of where the telephone is used at that moment; the ...
This is a list of telephone exchanges located within Greater London. 194 relations. List of telephone exchanges in London - Unionpedia, the concept map Communication
As telephone technology advanced, the precise significance of the prefix became blurred in many places; for instance, 485 in London, UK, was once the GULliver exchange, but now 44-20-7485-xxxx is just considered one of many number blocks served by the CLKEN Kentish Town exchange.
Private conversation, 1910. Historian John Brooks argues that the telephone created "a new habit of mind--a habit of tenseness and alertness, of demanding and expecting immediate results, whether in business, love or other forms of social intercourse." [70] The telephone was instrumental to modernization.
Kingsway telephone exchange was a Cold War -era hardened telephone exchange underneath High Holborn in London. Initially built as a deep-level air-raid shelter in the early 1940s, it was instead used as a government communications centre. In 1949 the General Post Office (GPO) took over the building, and in 1956 it became the UK termination ...
