The Bell System introduced the first electronic push-button telephone system with touch-tone dialing to customers in Pennsylvania on November 18, 1963. How touch tone technology works. Using dual-tone ...

Southwestern Pennsylvania made telephonic history in November 1963. Carnegie and Greensburg were first cities in the nation to get Bell Telephone’s touch-tone phones, which would eventually ...

On Nov. 18, 1963, customers got their first chance to buy electronic push-button telephones with touch-tone dialing. As more people grew accustomed to calling many-digit numbers with area codes and ...

The touch-tone telephone keypad: Rhodri Marsden's Interesting Objects. This week in 1963, touch-tone phones were offered to the public for the first time; the Pennsylvania towns of Carnegie and ...

On the first floor of a 77-year-old building in downtown Eugene, there are phones, lots of phones, all around you. Pink Princess phones, ...

You can admire [poprhythm]’s Touch Tone MIDI Phone in action in the short videos embedded below, with each one showing off a different aspect of the build. It’s great work!

(Yet Another) First Step. By George W. S. Trow. March 31, 1967. Save this ... is part of the Touch-Tone system. Touch-Tone phones, operated by buttons, reduce dialling time from 14 to 4 seconds.