# Number Please (Telephone Switchboard) / Lumbering

Number Please (Telephone Switchboard) / Lumbering Produced: 1920 Description The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: a. “Front of switchboard showing subscribers’ multiple.” Worker’s hand plugging in lines. “The key shelf -- ‘A’ board.” Switchboard operator tilts key shelf back, showing under side. “Testing subscribers’ lines to locate trouble.” Man at switchboard. “Testing toll lines.” Men at switchboard. “Accurately locating toll line trouble with Wheatstone bridge and galvanometer.” Worker operating above device. “Repairing trouble.” Worker on cross tie of telephone pole. “A telephone must have its talking points, so here are some brand new ones.” Woman interviewing prospective employee. “But they must be perfectly fit.” Nurse weighing woman. “Instructing students after they have qualified and passed physical examination.” Classroom, students with earphones and speakers on, instructors at front of room. “Instructors in foreground, students in background. Instructors playing part of subscribers.” “Another step in training.” Student at switchboard, instructor standing behind. “It is but a step now to be in the same room with the chief operator, supervisors and operators.” Women at switchboard. “Operating room -- ‘A’ board.” Women at switchboards, supervisor behind. “Remember, there are times when you imagine the operator asleep but she is very much awake.” Operators at switchboard. “Outgoing trunks to other ‘Central offices.’”…

- Kind: Educational
- Year: 1920
- By: National Archives
- Genres: Education
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/fc-fc-1010a-b)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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