#1 1940: Llega el teléfono con dial [ENG]

Robus — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 07:15:26 +0000

Creia que eran muy anteriores... y de hecho la invención sí que lo es:

Although the first rotary dial phones and automatic switchboards dated back to the 1890s, they suffered from a number of technical and financial drawbacks and were not widely adopted.

Pero me sonaba la protesta de un senador sobre su imposición y la situaba en los años 20...

One phone user who did not “accept the dial” was Senator Carter Glass of Virginia. When the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company, by then a subsidiary of AT&T, installed dial telephones on the Senate side of the Capitol in May 1930, the 72-year-old veteran lawmaker introduced a resolution:

Whereas dial telephones are more difficult to operate than are manual telephones; and Whereas Senators are required, since the installation of dial phones in the Capitol, to perform the duties of telephone operators in order to enjoy the benefits of telephone service; and Whereas dial telephones have failed to expedite telephone service; Therefore be it resolved that the Sergeant at Arms of the Senate is authorized and directed to order the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Co. to replace with manual phones within 30 days after the adoption of this resolution, all dial telephones in the Senate wing of the United States Capitol and in the Senate office building.

Y antes ya se había hecho algo similar:

President Herbert Hoover had banned dial phones from the White House when he took office in 1929, and North Carolina representative Charles L. Abernathy introduced a similar resolution in the House of Representatives.

Así que, si los "banearon" es que ya llebavan un tiempo en servicio, y efectivamente:

The New York Telephone Company, which began switching to dial phones in 1922

Así pues, el conflicto por la introducción de los diales que yo recordaba si que se produjo en los años 20... pero se ve que no se acabaron de normalizar hasta los años 40... curioso.

Más info:
www.senate.gov/artandhistory/senate-stories/senators-balk-at-dial-tele

» autor: Robus

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#1 1940: Llega el teléfono con dial [ENG]