Letter-dialing plan suggested by writer passes test 'A-Ok
Alternative Title
Valley Times Photo Collection
Creator
Dean, Gordon
Contributor
This project was supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian. Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation and Photo Friends.
Photograph was edited for publication purposes Photograph article dated January 4, 1963 partially reads, "255 686237 3425464 47 62765383. That's the only conclusion you can come to if you look into this problem deeply enough. (That sentence, in the latest lexicon of the all-digit telephone people, says 'all-number dialing is obsolete.') The difficulty you had in reading that first sentence shows the great flaw in the all-numbering dialing system: you can't understand what you're dialing. What we must do is move forward to a new system that is progressive though practical, understandable yet scientifically complex, a change that will capture the imagination of telephone dialers across the nation. In short, my system." Reporter-inventor Custis tries out new system - His idea does away with numbers, uses only letters.
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image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm. Photographic prints
Reporters and reporting--California--San Fernando Valley Men--California--San Fernando Valley Inventors--United States Photography, Humorous Telephones Telephone, Dial San Fernando Valley (Calif.) Valley Times Collection photographs Portrait photographs
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