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- OBJECT TYPE
- telephone
- DATE
- 1940
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 1968.0155.001
- MANUFACTURER
- Northern Electric Co. Ltd.
- MODEL
- 12
- LOCATION
- Canada
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- N/A
- Part Number
- 1
- Total Parts
- 1
- AKA
- N/A
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- Unknown
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- N/A
- Width
- N/A
- Height
- N/A
- Thickness
- N/A
- Weight
- N/A
- Diameter
- N/A
- Volume
- N/A
Lexicon
- Group
- Communications
- Category
- Telephony
- Sub-Category
- N/A
Manufacturer
- AKA
- Northern Electric
- Country
- Canada
- State/Province
- Unknown
- City
- Unknown
Context
- Country
- Canada
- State/Province
- Ontario
- Period
- 1939-1967
- Canada
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This unit was installed in Picton, Ontraio in 1939. It was removed from Picton in 1959 and refurbished and installed in Perkins, Quebec, where it remained in service until it was decommissioned in 1967. - Function
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To provide a central switching point for subscriber lines in a public telephone network. - Technical
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Provides manual switching for up to 200 common battery local circuits, Also equipped for 10 outgoing trunks for toll circuits. - Area Notes
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Unknown
Details
- Markings
- N/A
- Missing
- N/A
- Finish
- Unknown
- Decoration
- N/A
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Northern Electric Co. Ltd., Switchboard, before 1940, Artifact no. 1968.0155, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collections.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/1968.0155.001/
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