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

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 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 ...

[poprhythm]’s Touch Tone MIDI Phone is a fantastic conversion of an old touch tone phone into a MIDI instrument complete with intact microphone, but this project isn’t just about showin… ...

(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.