Electronic communication, circa 1945: An advertisement for the New York Telephone Company, from The New York Times<\/em> in 1944 or 1945.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

Of note<\/em>: The early style rotary phone.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

Of note<\/em>: Manufacturing.\u00a0 That is, physical<\/em> manufacturing!\u00a0 “And when the factories that make switchboards – now busy producing war communications equipment – resume peacetime production, it will take time to manufacture the quality needed, and still more time to fit the new switchboards to existing central offices.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Of note<\/em>:\u00a0 The reference to the Red Cross, consistent with the tenor of the (war) times.<\/span><\/p>\n

Of note<\/em>: Could Mr. New York Telephone be a distant cousin of Reddy Kilowatt? (!)<\/span><\/p>\n

(More ads to follow.)<\/span><\/p>\n

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Electronic communication, circa 1945: An advertisement for the New York Telephone Company, from The New York Times in 1944 or 1945.\u00a0 Of note: The early style rotary phone.\u00a0 Of note: Manufacturing.\u00a0 That is, physical manufacturing!\u00a0 “And when the factories that make switchboards – now busy producing war communications equipment – resume peacetime production, it will … Continue reading The Age of Advertising: New York Telephone Company (1944 – 1945)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4,7,2],"tags":[169],"class_list":["post-1081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advertising","category-art","category-sociology","category-technology","tag-new-york-telephone-company"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thepastpresented.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thepastpresented.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thepastpresented.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thepastpresented.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thepastpresented.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1081"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/thepastpresented.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4673,"href":"http:\/\/thepastpresented.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081\/revisions\/4673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thepastpresented.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thepastpresented.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thepastpresented.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}