dial telephone

Noun

Meaning

a telephone with a dial for registering the number to be called

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The truth is everybody does it from time to time. People dial telephone numbers and they get a wrong number only to find that they've read the last two digits backwards. Everybody does it, but dyslexics have this tendency to a higher degree. Bruce Jenner

A major selling point of dial telephone service was that it was "secret", in that no operator was required to connect the call. Source: Internet

It was called Davenport after the exchange name at the introduction of dial telephone service in Palo Alto. Source: Internet

Their first dial telephone was produced in 1921, although sales of the early automatic switching systems were slow until the equipment had proven itself on the world's markets. Source: Internet

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