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Telephone, 1890s
Telephone, 1900s
Telephone, 1920s
Telephone, 1940s
Telephone, 1950s
Telephone, 1960s
Telephone, 1980s
Telephone, 1990s
Telephone, 2000
Pye Cambridge radiophone
Submarine trencher

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Telephone, 1890s

Made by the Ericsson Company of Sweden the Type 16 was known as The Eiffel Tower Telephone in America and sometimes as the Skeleton Telephone in the UK. There was no dial as all calls were made through the operator. It had the transmitter and receiver in a single handset.