Stacy E. Apelt - Bladesmith
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Before there is any confusion again, Leland Johnson Stacy invented the modern dial phone. It is properly called the Selective Station Dial Phone System. It is the system that allows a person to call from their phone to another phone without the need for operators. It was a relay decoding system, and required huge stations of relays. Today a pocket calculator has more processing ability that those old toll bar stations.
The dial phone was invented about 40-50 years earlier, and Bell Labs ( grandfather's employer) licensed the system, but it had several shortcomings - mainly the need for operators. Once the size of the phone system grew to millions of users, the need for a completely automatic, or at least one that was less manual, became clear.
The dial phone was invented about 40-50 years earlier, and Bell Labs ( grandfather's employer) licensed the system, but it had several shortcomings - mainly the need for operators. Once the size of the phone system grew to millions of users, the need for a completely automatic, or at least one that was less manual, became clear.
