Telephone Museum Tour

Join A&H's Experiences Director Randall Webster for a tour of our Telephone Museum! The museum takes visitors on an overview of communications technology and the history of the telephone. Try your hand at the working switchboard and then take a look at how communications change throughout time. This exciting collection features several hands-on displays and includes the story of the Winter Park Telephone Company, founded in Maitland by Carl Hill Galloway. A very special thank you to J. Rodrick Chapman for his volunteer assistance in maintaining the A&H's interactive Telephone Museum.

[@michaelvalcourt9978]

I'm a retired System Engineer. Started my career with NY Telephone. Nice to see the old tech at this museum. Thank you.

[@karenrich9092]

In the intro of this video is a beige phone with the receiver on top. I believe it is a ROLM phone and I have one in my garage. My husband built our phone system with leftover 6 button sets and cable leftover from jobs he did. Thank you for this tour of the museum.

[@Steinninn]

Thank you for the tour. Hello from Iceland

[@christenewaldon961]

Awesome video 🤗

[@tieline1333]

I got to tour two ex-Winter Park Telephone central offices in Winter Park. 151 New York Ave & 500 New York Ave. They used to be NX-1 Crossbar but now they are DMS-100. I did the tour a few years ago in 2017 or 2018. The Winter Park Time & Temp number (646-3131) is an Audichron Z-10 or maybe the version prior to that. I also got to touch and physically see the Time & Temperature machine at the 151 central office It sits at the top of a 23" relay rack on a miscellaneous equipment frame. The thing all together takes less than 4U of rack space! There are recordings of when those offices used to be NX-1 Crossbar on Evan Doorbell's website. And recreations of it on the NPSTN network! :)

[@CoimbatoreCulturalClub]

Super sir
I support u ever...am from India a HAM RADIO OPERATOR.

[@karenroy9045]

Wow people still use ham radios.

[@gregoryagogo]

Those are Trimlines on the bottom shelf... the princess phone is on the shelf above (beige).

[@Stache987]

Great production, although putting your finger and holding the dial against its stop doest send a interrupted signal until you release it.
Kids of today have no idea what a wired phone is much less know how to use a rotary phone.
Good ole UTS, universal takeover system.. LOL they were big in Missouri and CenturyLink ultimately took them over, what a mess to get customer service, let alone service. I was moving into a location with a overdue bill from a previous Tennant and it took 10 days of complaining to finally be told that's why I had soft restriction dialtone.. my landlord had to call, and 3 more days later I had service "from a run that had service live to the switch".. I am a former Verizon landline service rep, no way would that fly!

[@AHMaitland]

Wow! We're so happy our Telephone Museum could bring up so many interesting memories. Thanks for sharing your first-hand knowledge!

[@gregoryagogo]

Those phones need matching cords! The yellow one should be fairly easy to find...

[@MrSpliffy2]

Pretty cool.

[@Jace0036]

There was no Princess phone on the shelf towards the end. It was a Trim Line phone, which you called a Princess phone. They are different models.

[@oliverharris7366]

My mom Hated them wall phones. When a neighbor moved out my dad would get the cord off their phone and splice it onto are phone. My mom could watch us kids while on the phone.

[@dalemettee1147]

Now, do you remember the chimes used to ring the phones in a home. They were so pleasing that some customers would just let the chimes sound without answering the incoming call. They were finally removed. One phone model I didn't see in the array of styles was the 1930's desk set that was heavy because it was metal and the bells were in a box on a wall not in the set.

[@Pacificbell]

i have alot of cellphones i should make a museum

[@alanhartmann3355]

Great video, thanks! At 4:04, what's the device with the rotating disks just to the left of the 8102 ringing generators?

[@larryg.9187]

..... There used to be a number to call, and get the time, in ten second intervals...
... Also, in our basement was a phone with no dial...It was part of a party line system... From time to time, I would carefully lift the receiver and hear different near neighbors talking ... Lol ...
... When I was just under ten, about 1961, my Mom had a job as an operator at some 12 story building in downtown Detroit... Once in a while, she would take my brothers and I with her... I watched in fascination as she answered and plugged the cables... The rest of the time my brothers and I would ride the elevator or look out the windows... Great fun when your 8 or 9 ...lol 🤣 ... 📞 ...

[@ScottGrammer]

Subscribed.

[@jamesdavis5096]

1:22 Steve Martin the phone books are here the phone books are here look I'm finally somebody

[@tiinau6562]

😂👍😱På den gamla goda tiden
Jag minns
.... 1966..1971... 😂😂... När det 😂fanns telefon katalogerna och.... Telefon kiosker.... 👍🌻✌️❤️🇫🇴🌼👍🐏

[@johnlupo3919]

WINNER PARK???????????????????? OR WINTER PARK???????????????????????????????????

[@georgercsd4771]

It's great to maintain some of this old technology - bravo. But please talk to someone who is technically savvy who can clue you in. Lifting the handset on a central office phone does not "send a light" nor "an electronic signal" it completes an ELECTRICAL circuit resulting in a light turning on and an audible signal to sound (but not an audible signal at a busy switchboard). I stopped listening when the gaffes piled up too high, but I hope you will do more, and better, videos soon.

[@thechuckyboi1438]

Lmfao don’t listen to this guy. This video was really informative on the history of the phones. That’s what I expected when I clicked on the video… I was not expecting an in-depth highly accurate explanation of how an ancient telephone worked. Maybe keep quiet unless you have a good comment to make!