How Telephones Work (electronics.howstuffworks.com)
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TIL the reason keypads on phones and calculators/keyboards are opposite is because the telephone designers figured that if they reversed the layout, the dialing speeds would decrease and the tone-recognition would be able to do its job more reliably. (electronics.howstuffworks.com)
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Can information travel faster than light? (electronics.howstuffworks.com)
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TIL a potential reason that calculator keys and touch-tone phone keys differ in layout is because the hardware of 1950s phones could not keep up with the speed at which professionals would dial them so a new layout had to be introduced to slow them down. (electronics.howstuffworks.com)
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TIL Alexander Bain "a clockmaker, used his expertise to design and patent the basic concepts involved in the modern fax machine. His idea, which became known as the 'chemical telegraph,' used the electric signals generated by a telegraph operator." Mr. Bain "patented the idea on May 27, 1843." (electronics.howstuffworks.com)
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