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100-year history of the telephone

Week number: 76-33

Newsreels in which Dutch subjects of a certain week are presented.

Type:video
Length:02:42
Publication date:1 January 1976
User:Nederlands Instituut voor Beeld en Geluid
Source:BG_9706
Tags:communicatie,  techniek en innovatie 

On the occasion of the invention of the telephone in 1876 the Post Museum in The Hague has an exhibition called '100 years of telephone'. Attention for the history of the telephone. SHOTS: several models of the telephone, one of them is a videophone; telephonists take care of the international telephone traffic; overview of the exhibition. ARCHIVE MATERIAL: telephone exchange; telephonists make connections.