Telephones from Europe
A collection of telephones from countries where German languages are spoken
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Help to identify this telephone and the (KKTV, TSV, L&SR) lettering on the base was kindly provided by Christian Bruckner from Austria
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Telephone
Type Ö 10
"KKTV" means : Kaiserlich Königliche Telegraphen Verwaltung (a telephone out of the Austrian monarchy around 1910) |
Telephone
Type Ö 10
"TZV 1936" means : Telegraphen Zeug Verwaltung 1936 (phone was repaired or updated by the workshop of the Austrian Postal Authority in 1936) "L & S R 57" means: the Austrian company Leopolder&Sohn has repaired this phone in 1957. |
1949: In West Germany, the German federal postal service (Deutsche Bundespost) is established as legal successor of the existing German postal service (Deutsche Reichspost). In East Germany, after the end of WW II and the division of Germany, the complete communications network is placed under the jurisdiction of the postal ministry.
In
1950, Siemens & Halske of Berlin, Germany created a dial mechanism quite
different from the traditional form. Instead
of a dial, a cylindrical drum was used which was operated with a vertical
motion. The telephone handset rests
over the drum, meaning it could be handled equally well for right or left-handed
people. This unusual telephone was available in black, green and ivory.
Siemens & Halske
Werner
von Siemens was born on December 13, 1816, in Lenthe, near Hanover. The main
focus of his interest was telegraphy, a field that was as yet relatively
undeveloped, but Werner nevertheless recognized that it would become a
"technology of the future." Convinced
that his telegraph had the potential to become a success, Werner decided to go
into business: Together with a highly skilled mechanical engineer, Johann Georg
Halske, he set up a company, Telegraphen-Bau-Anstalt von Siemens & Halske,
in Berlin, which went into business in October 1847. Just eight years after
starting up, Siemens & Halske had become an international company. The
company rapidly took a lead in production of telegraph, dynamo drives, lighting
and power engineering, telephony, radio and, later, television. To this day,
they are still a world-class manufacturer and a leader in some of these fields.
These
three 1960’s c
olour-phones
are from the factory of Siemens Halske, Germany.
Different colour options, but the
Australian 800 series has a very similar external appearance.
1995:
On January 1, the second phase of the national postal and telecommunications
reform marks the transition from Deutsche Bundespost Telekom to the state-owned
stock company Deutsche Telekom AG
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Deutsche
Telekom is now represented in about 65 countries worldwide. As Europe's largest
telecommunications provider, the company is present in the most important
markets in Europe, Asia and America..
Other German telephones in the collection
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Mix and Genest with a pencil carbon microphone
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Unknown - thought to be Siemens
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