Renseignements généraux

Nº de série

S/O

Nº de partie

3

Nombre total de parties

8

Ou

S/O

Brevets

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Description générale

Synthetic keypad

Dimensions

Remarque : Cette information reflète la taille générale pour l’entreposage et ne représente pas nécessairement les véritables dimensions de l’objet.

Longueur

10,6 cm

Largeur

9,0 cm

Hauteur

1,3 cm

Épaisseur

S/O

Poids

S/O

Diamètre

S/O

Volume

S/O

Lexique

Groupe

Communications

Catégorie

Téléphonie

Sous-catégorie

S/O

Fabricant

Ou

Inconnu

Pays

Inconnu

État/province

Inconnu

Ville

Inconnu

Contexte

Pays

Canada

État/province

Ontario

Période

ca. 1996-1997

Canada

Bell Northern Research, was the research and development subsidiary of Northern Telecom (later Nortel Networks) and Bell Canada. It was built by Northern Telecom at its Trans-Canada plant in Montreal. Northern Telecom and its predecessor, Northern Electric, was for decades Canada’s largest manufacturer of telecommunications equipment. Originally a subsidiary of the AT&T-owned Western Electric, for which it manufactured American-designed products for the Canadian market, Northern Electric became Canadian-owned in the 1950s and in the 1960s began to design and produce equipment to meet the distinctive needs of Canadian telecommunication companies. In the 1970s, through its new research subsidiary, Bell Northern Research, the company made a concerted shift from conventional analogue equipment into the emerging field of digital communications, becoming in the 1980s the first equipment supplier to provide a complete line of fully digital switching and transmission gear. During this decade the company moved aggressively into export markets, and opened manufacturing and R&D operations in several countries. The company’s sales soared during the internet boom of the 1990s, but a combination of poor financial decisions and a failure to maintain its technological edge led eventually to its bankruptcy in 2009. The original Bell Northern facilities were designed with cutting edge telecommunications research and development in mind with the first three buildings on the campus featuring laboratories, an extensive research library, and an anechoic chamber. The anechoic chamber was the focal point of the Bell Northern Research acoustics research examining both the technology and placement of speakers and microphones in telecommunication devices. The anechoic chamber group was organized under the Industrial Design and working together with design were responsible for the development of the acoustic properties of most products. (From the Acquisition Proposal, see Ref. 1)

Fonction

To provide the physical interface to allow a user to dial a number on a telephone or use various option buttons.

Technique

Rapid prototype (early 3D printed plastic) of the Nomad 8500 portable telephone. This was used as part of the interactive design process when developing the Nomad 8500. According to David Cuddy, former former director of the Nortel Acoustics Laboratory, this particular prototype was used to develop the best placement of speakers and microphones as well as to design their housing within the telephone. (From the Acquisition Proposal, see Ref. 1)

Notes sur la région

Inconnu

Détails

Marques

The grey buttons are marked in the typical fashion of telephone keys, with the numbers "1" to "9" as well as "*/ 0/ #"/ On keys 2 to 9 the following letters appear: "ABC/ DEF/ GHI/ JKL/ MNO/ PQRS/ TUV/ WXYZ"

Manque

Appears complete

Fini

The number buttons are predominantly dark grey with white markings. The majority of the other buttons are light green with the exception of one that is a dark pink colour. The overall appearance of the keypad is a marble-like effect as colours flow into each other. One section of the keypad is mostly transparent and colourless.

Décoration

S/O