Rings & Cranks - One Long and Two Shorts
Ray (Bud) Nuckols>UIS Collection N-R>UIS Collection N-R, Segment 3
- TELEPHONE
- In KY and Illinois, the first phones were neighborhood projects of crank phones in houses, connected by lines to fence posts between houses. Each house had a distinctive ring of long and short rings that were cranked by the caller and recognized by the receiver. A small closed system.
