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Encyclopedia > General Telephone

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TEAM: General Telephone Information (884 words)
To call a campus number from an off-campus telephone, dial the prefix 465 plus the desired four-digit extension number (i.e., 465-xxxx).
If you are using an office telephone, call collect or have the call billed to your home phone.
You will need to provide day and date of teleconference, starting time and estimated ending time, conference name, clientele, number of lines, number of participants, and if they will call in or be called by the operator, name of moderator, if you want to have the conference recorded, and billing address.
NodeWorks - Encyclopedia: Telephone (3634 words)
Generally attributed to the inventor Alexander Graham Bell, the first was built in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1876.
The very early history of the telephone is a confusing morass of claim and counterclaim, which was not clarified by the huge mass of lawsuits which hoped to resolve the patent claims of individuals.
The primitive telephone was rapidly improved, the double electromagnet being replaced by a single bar magnet having a small coil or bobbin of fine wire surrounding one pole, in front of which a thin disc of ferrotype is fixed in a circular mouthpiece, and serves as a combined membrane and armature.
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