Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2003 23:40:47 +0000 (GMT) From: af877@freenet.carleton.ca (Harry Dodsworth) Subject: Early dial exchanges, NYC, 1922 Organization: National Capital Freenet, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada I found the following clipping while looking for something else. I hope it is interesting to telecom historians on the group. New York Times, Friday, December 1, 1922 (microfilm) NEW 'DIAL' PHONES TO START TOMORROW Exchange, Which Is to Be Known as 'Academy,' Will Carry 4,000 Lines At midnight tomorrow night the New York Telephone Company will place in service New York City's second machine switching telephone central. It will be known as "Academy" and will be located at 193 Manhattan Avenue. About 4,000 telephone lines now served by the Academy manual central office will be transferred to the new machine switching apparatus. Academy serves the district between 102d Street and 110th Street, west from Central Park to the Hudson River. The first apparatus of the machine switching type to serve New York City subscribers was placed in operation in Pennsylvania central office district last October. At that time 1,800 lines were transferred to the new office and since then 1,200 more have been cut over to the Pennsylvania machine switching apparatus. A transfer of about 1,200 more lines is planned for this month. The telephone company announces that the success of the installation has been gratifying. Several other machine switching central offices will be placed in operation in the city during the next twelve months. In the "Walker" central office the company has begun to replace the manual instruments with the "dial" instrument. "Walker" will be the third central office in Manhattan to be this equipped. -- Harry Dodsworth Ottawa Ontario Canada af877@freenet.carleton.ca ----------------------------------------------------------------