Media item

100-year history of the telephone

Week number: 76-33

Newsreels in which Dutch subjects of a certain week are presented.

Type:
video
Length:
02:42
Publication date:
1 January 1976
User:
Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision
Creator:
Polygoon-Profilti (producer) / Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision (curator)
Source:
BG_9706

On the occasion of the invention of the telephone in 1876 the Post Museum in The Hague has an exhibition called '100 years of telephone'. A look at the history of the telephone. SHOTS: several models of the telephone, one of them is a videophone; telephonists take care of the international telephone traffic; overview of the exhibition. ARCHIVE MATERIAL: telephone exchange; telephonists make connections.