The candlestick telephone (or pole telephone) is a style of telephone that was common from the late 1890s to the 1940s. A candlestick telephone is also ...Design and features · Production · Successor telephones · Later design influences
How does the candlestick phone work?
A candlestick telephone is also often referred to as a desk stand, an upright, or a stick phone. Candlestick telephones featured a mouth piece (transmitter) mounted at the top of the stand, and a receiver (ear phone) that was held by the user to the ear during a call.
Do candlestick telephones still work?
11 digit Potbelly Dial Candlestick This is the first dial telephone. The inventor, Almon Strowger, was an undertaker in Kansas City in the late 1800's.
Who invented candlestick phones?
When we first installed dial phones in 1919, they were the distinctive candlestick model. AT&T installed the first dial telephones in the Bell System in Norfolk, Virginia on Nov. 8, 1919. That's almost exactly 100 years ago.