Western Electric Candlestick Dial Telephone

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Western Electric Candlestick Dial Telephone

Background
Description
Photos
Patents
Related
References
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Background


Part of my interest in Telephones and in particular telephones that were patented.

Description


Photos

Fig 1
Western Electric Candlestick Dial Telephone

 Fig 2 Western Electric Dial
Western Electric Pat in USA: Aug 13 12, Aug 24 15
Des May 7 18, Sept 13 21
Made in USA
Western Electric Candlestick Dial Telephone

 Fig 3 Western Electric Beveled Edge 229 Transmitter
Western Electric Candlestick Dial Telephone
Fig 4  ??AL
"Property of the American Bell Telephone Company"
"???AL"
Western Electric Candlestick Dial Telephone
 Fig 5 WE Type 4H dial converted from older type 2 dial.
Finger stop holes plugged.
Western Electric Candlestick Dial Telephone
 Fig 6 Mount Patents
"Pat in USA Sept 13, 04, Jan 26 15, Jan 1 18, May 7 18"
50AL Dial Desk Stand
Western Electric Candlestick Dial Telephone
Fig 7 modern miniature network replaces subset like used
on the WE 202 Telephone.  This allows the use of a modular cord.
The Bell in still missing, but I've got plenty of phones that ring.
Western Electric Candlestick Dial Telephone

Patents

Mount

"Pat in USA Sept 13, 04, Jan 26 15, Jan 1 18, May 7 18"

Sept 13 1904 769702 1904-09-13 App 1903-06-06; Lattig & Goodrum (), Telephone Transmitter
Jan 26 1915 1125965 Automatic switching system, Edgar H Clark, Western Electric Co Inc, 1915-01-26 App 1908-01-20;
1125997 Selective signaling system, Joseph C Field, Western Electric Co Inc, 1915-01-26 App 1912-08-23
Jan 1 1918 1251995 Telephone desk-stand, Oscar F Forsberg, Western Electric Co Inc,  1918-01-01 - WE 50AL Telephone Desk Stand
May 7 1918 1124021 Impulse-transmitter, William F Hoffmann, Western Electric Co Inc

Dial

Patent dates, see Fig 2 above.  Note "Des" only applies to May 7, 1918 and not to Sept 13, 1921.

Aug 13 1912 1035354 Signal-transmitter, William Kaisling, Kellogg Switchboard & Supply Co, 1912-08-13, H04M1/31 - Dial mechanism
Aug 24 1915 1151541 Calling device for automatic telephone-exchanges, Alexander E Keith, John Erickson, Charles J Erickson, First Trust & Savings Bank, 1915-08-24, H04M1/31 - Dial mechanism 
May 7 1918 D52009 Calling Device, O.F. Forsberg, Western Electric Co Inc, May 7, 1918 - Design of dial shows only numbers from 1 to 0 no letters.
1124021 Impulse-transmitter, William F Hoffmann, Western Electric Co Inc
Sept 13 1921 1390679 Impulse-transmitter, Henry F Dobbin, Edgar W Gent, Western Electric Co Inc,Sept 13 1921, 379/362

1353612 Telephone Exchange System, F.N. Reeves, Sept 21, 1920 - 50AL dial wiring for candlestick phone
1161854 Calling Device, O.F. Forsberg, Western Electric Co Inc, Nov 30, 1915, 379/366; 188/184; 379/367 - WE Type D-8083 Dial

1251995 Telephone desk-stand, Oscar F Forsberg , Western Electric Co Inc, 1918-01-01 - WE 50AL Telephone Desk Stand
D52010 Desk Telephone Stand, O.F. Forsberg, Western Electric Co Inc, May 7, 1918, - WE 50AL Telephone Desk Stand

Transmitter

485311 Telephone, Anthony C White, American Bell Telephone,  American Bell Telephone Co, 1892-11-01 carbon granule

Receiver

Has been upgraded to a modern type.  Even so the sound is weak compared to modern telephones.  But it's a working telephone as it is.  With the form, fit and function, weight and dial sound of the original.

Related

Phones
Western Electric 202 Dial phone
Bell System 302 Dial Phone
Bell System 500 Dial Phone
Bell system 2500 Touch Tone phone 
Western Electric 2554 Wall Touch Tone Telephone
 Panasonic KX-TA824 Small Business Phone System (PBX)
VOIP Voice Over Internet Protocol

References


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