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- you picked up the earpiece from the hook and listened to verify nobody else was using your party line
- you turned the magneto crank to signal the operator that you wanted to make a call
- when the operator asked "number please?" you gave the number you wanted to call (usually an urban phone number was 3 or 4 digits followed by a letter, the digits gave the phone line and the letter the party on that line - rural phone numbers were more complex)
- the operator connected you.
If someone was calling you, you learned to recognize your "ring pattern" and only answer the phone if the call was for you, not someone else on the party line.
Urban party lines could have 2 to 10 parties sharing a single line. Rural party lines sometimes had even more.
Usually only businesses and professionals (e.g. doctors and lawyers) could afford the extra charges for having a dedicated single party line.
What else can I help you with?
Did the first telephone work?
nope or the 2nd or the 3rd.
Was it the spilled acid which caused AG bell's first telephone to work?
Salt acide made first bell telephone work. Dusan nikolov new belgrade serbian
When was the second telephone designed?
At the same time as the first. If you think about it, one telephone is kind of useless.
How did the first telephone invented look like?
the frist telephone looked like a typewriter and needed a lot of power to work
When was the first time Louis Armstrong used a telephone?
in 200
What made the first telephone work?
A battery that was wired to a needle that converted sound waves into an electric signal which traveled along a wire to a receiver made the first telephone work. It was invented by Alexander Graham Bell.
Did anyone want to buy the first telephone Alexander Graham Bell invented?
No, no one wished to buy the first telephone until it was proven to work when he made two
Who invented the first success telephone?
Alexander Graham Bell is credited with the first electrical telephone in 1876. Modern phones still use the basic principles of his work.
When was music sent down a telephone line for the first time?
1876
Did the first telephone that Alexander Graham Bell work good?
Yes it did! But it was improved in 1901!
What is alternative number?
An alternative number is a second [telephone] number, to be used if the first does not work.
Who spoke on the phone for the first time?
If you mean telephone, many people where involved in the process but it is usually said that Bell and Watson produced the first commercially made telephone.
