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On this day 150 years ago Alexander Graham Bell was granted the first U.S. patent for transmitting sound via electrical signals or as it became known... the telephone.

You can findour 150 Years of the Telephone exhibit on Level 3 of the @TheHiveWorcs

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Flowers To Fibre is now re-open @tnmoc. Learn how Tommy Flowers inventor of Colossus went on to pioneer electronic telecommunications switching. See more here https://t.co/EEcqmyHF2A

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On July 3rd 1990 The UK Trunk network became fully digital, the first system in the world to do so.

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Find out more about our Flowers to Fibre exhibition @tnmoc https://t.co/EEcqmyHF2A with thanks to @aaisp

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Fantastic to open Flowers to Fibre exhibition today @tnmoc

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Great buzz at the opening today of Flowers to Fibre @tnmoc with @commsmuseum!

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@tnmoc @kidsinmuseums Many thanks for @aaisp for supporting us with this

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Join us on March 11 for the start of a hands-on exhibition going inside the story of Britain's high-speed communications future! Check out our vid & grab a ticket here: https://t.co/g6msFymsdX
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If you are a CMT member and wish to attend the event on March 11th or a general visit on any day please email us for a discount code

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Excited to reveal I've been working furiously on this for the past few months with the ever-superb team @TNMOC and amazing @commsmuseum. Thanks all for the opportunity - can't wait for Flowers to Fibre to go live on March 11! (Oh, and, shameless plug: Grab a ticket!).

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On 14th Feb AG Bell filed a patent on his apparatus for transmitting vocal sounds, the telephone.

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On 11th Feb 1839 Almon Strowger was born in Penfield, New York. A funeral director, frustrated by calls being misdirected to his competitor by manual operators he invented an automatic telephone switch allowing callers to dial the number using a rotary dial

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he first trunk telephone line was opened between Leeds and Bradford on 29th January 1880

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On 26th January 1926 John Logie Baird gave a demonstration to around 40 members of the Royal Institute of his Television system.

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At Osborne House on the Isle of Wight Queen Victoria was given a demonstration of a telephone by Alexander Graham Bell on 14th January 1878. Calls were made to London, Cowes and Southampton. They were the first long distant calls in the UK

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On this day: The first patent for a rotary dial was granted to Almon Brown Strowger (November 29, 1892) as U.S. Patent 486,909

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@WestApproaches These are the Linefinders which respond when someone makes a call to connect the line into the exchange ready for them to start dialling.

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More progress today restoring the Strowger exchange at @WestApproaches dirty contacts are causing some faults which we are working through

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#otd in 1991: Using a Macintosh Portable, the first email was sent from space.

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The Post Office trunk telephone system was opened to the public on 16th July 1895.