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Bell System Advertisements
Technology and Styles - Past, Present, and Future
>>> Links to other advertisement pages: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 8 - 9 <<<


TECHNOLOGY and STYLES -
PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE

How many can you remember?
How Many of 'em
Can You
Remember?

Science keeps down costs (Cable Improvements)

Science keeps down costs.

This is from the Sept. 1922 National Geographic.

Not as simple as it looks

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Fifty Years of Progress

It's little, it's lovely, it lights
It's Little . . .
It's Lovely . . .
It Lights!

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It takes 500 tons of equipment for just one telephone exchange

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What Happened
to the Dial?
Dial Closeup

Transistorized Telephone
Your Phone of the Future from Western Electric

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The Trimline
Phone.

Twenty Million Miles of Telephone Wire

An Accent of Stewardship

Winning Nature's Secrets

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Communications -
directing arm of combat

Multiplexing the Telephone

Your Handy Phones Away From Home

 

New for you - a more useful telephone number!

 

Tomorrow's Telephone Service
- A Forecast

His genius gave wings to words

To each her own princess

To each her
own Princess!

WE rural telephones

Western Electric
Rural Telephones

 

No. 5 and No. 6 Phone Booth Ad

Telephone Booths

The Telephone Doors of the Nation

The Telephone Doors of the Nation

The Bell System's new Electronic Switching System

90 years of telephone progress toward better, faster service!


Years of Progress


(Scan courtesy of
Albert LaFrance)

(Scan courtesy of
Albert LaFrance)


1969 ad
"Twenty Years Under
the Sea" - Page 1


1969 ad
"Twenty Years Under
the Sea" - Page 2

1969 ad
"Twenty Years Under
the Sea" - Page 3

(Scan courtesy of
Albert LaFrance)


(Scan courtesy of
Albert LaFrance)


"Birthplace of the Transistor"
1953 Bell Labs Advertisement
(Scan courtesy of
Mark Bearden)

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