Super Telephone Exchange In Stockholm, 1890

In the early days of the telephone everyone wanted to be the phone grid but each telephone required its own physical line strung between a house or business to a phone exchange where the call was manually connected by a live operator. In Stockholm, Sweden, the central telephone exchange was the Telefontornet, a giant tower designed around 1890 that connected some 5,000 lines which stretched across the city.



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