File:Magneto wall telephone 1917 open.jpg

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English: Early magneto wall telephone manufactured in 1917 by Julius Andrae and Sons Co., Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA from an advertisement in a telephone trade magazine. Shown with case open revealing internal parts. Magneto for ringer is seen above the cylindrical batteries. Magneto telephones were "local battery" instruments; power for the transmitter was provided by dry cell batteries in each telephone, which had to be replaced periodically. These were superseded by modern "central battery" systems, in which all the power for the phone was provided by the local switching office.

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Source Retrieved October 20, 2014 from Telephony magazine, Telephony Publishing Co., Chicago, Vol. 73, No. 10, September 8, 1917, p. 33 on Google Books
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