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Title from accompanying material.
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fx71ks12n
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Western Electric telephone
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object
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fx71ks12n
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object
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normalized
title
Western Electric telephone
description
Title from accompanying material.
date
["[ca. 1842–2021]"]
year
1842
rights
The Lewis H. Latimer Society, Inc. owns outright all of the materials in these collections.
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This work is in the public domain under a Creative Commons No Rights Reserved License (CC0).
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no restrictions
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1_1_5
institution
Lewis H. Latimer Society & Museum
collections
Lewis H. Latimer Society Chelsea
subjects
Communication
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Objects
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Telephones
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Artifact
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1 item
notes
Title from accompanying material.
The first subscriber model to integrate the mouthpiece and receiver into a single handset, the 102 was introduced in 1927, followed by the 202 in 1930 (pictured here). The 202 incorporated better electronic circuitry.
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fx71ks12n
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