• On February 27, 1975, fire broke out at the New York Telephone Company switching center at 204 Second Avenue and Thirteenth Street in the East Village...
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    A telephone exchange, also known as a telephone switch or central office, is a crucial component in the public switched telephone network (PSTN) or large...
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    The New York City Fire Department Bureau of Emergency Medical Services (FDNY EMS) is a division of the New York City Fire Department (FDNY) in charge...
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    The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, on Saturday, March 25, 1911, was the deadliest...
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  • Telegraph, and American Speaking Telephone, based their New York and San Francisco operations on the telephone exchange principle and thus were larger and...
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    its respective numbering plan area. The telephone number consists of a three-digit central office (or exchange) code and a four-digit station number. The...
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  • Levels Alabama Phone Exchange", The Advertiser (Haleyville, AL), 4 Oct 1955. Photo included. "Telephone Engineer & Management". Telephone Engineer Publishing...
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  • becomes mayor. 1835 December 16: New York Stock Exchange and hundreds of other buildings are destroyed by the Great Fire, which rages for two days in the...
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    including the New York Stock Exchange and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Anchored on Wall Street in the Financial District, New York City has been...
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    engineers which had been supplying AT&T with such technology as telephones, telephone exchange switches and transmission equipment. During the early 20th century...
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  • holdings. Starting in 1977, ITT set out to develop an ambitious new Digital Telephone Exchange, System 1240 (later System 12), which reportedly cost US$1 billion...
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    subsidiary of Bell Telephone to build and operate a long-distance telephone network. Brooks, John (1975). TELEPHONE The First Hundred Years. New York: Harper &...
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    used by New York Telephone as a telephone exchange for residents living on the East Side of Manhattan, served from the East 37th Street exchange building...
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    sewing and linen rooms, and a telephone exchange. When the hotel opened, American Architect said the telephone exchange was "the largest of its kind ever...
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    February 13, 1975, a three-alarm fire broke out on the North Tower's 11th floor. It spread to the 9th and 14th floors after igniting telephone cable insulation...
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    Aristotle Onassis (category 1975 deaths)
    ISBN 978-0-14-009961-4. Gage, Nicholas (2000). Greek Fire, The Story of Maria Callas and Aristotle Onassis. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. ISBN 978-0375402449. Harlaftis...
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    the candy counter with fire extinguishers from the walls, and breaking all the glass doors at the entrance. An AT&T telephone building exists at Queens...
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    adjacent cabin, characteristically attacked the raiding party head on, exchanging fire with Purvis, before retreating into the lodge under a return volley...
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  • to telephone for ambulances, which arrived minutes later; others attempted to perform impromptu first aid. Although the guardsmen who opened fire claimed...
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  • James McDade (aged 28), died after the bomb he was planting outside a telephone exchange in Coventry, England exploded prematurely. 15 November 1974: A patrolling...
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    Burbank". Retrieved 5 November 2019. "Dr. Bell, Inventor of Telephone, Dies" (PDF). The New York Times. 3 August 1922. Retrieved 3 March 2009. Bruce, Robert...
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    Rather than string up cable on telephone poles or use microwave antennas to receive the signals, Sterling had laid new cable lines beneath the streets...
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  • of the telephone. The Bell Telephone Company was established in 1877 by Alexander Graham Bell, who obtained the first US patent for the telephone, and his...
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  • Institutions Code) The New York Fire Department uses its own ten-code system. The New Zealand Fire Service uses a system of "K-codes" to pass fire appliance availability...
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  • begins making moving pictures in London. 1902 1 March: The first GPO telephone exchange in London opens in the Faraday Building. April Vladimir Lenin, under...
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  • Square injured four people. 17 December 1974: Bombs detonated on two telephone exchanges: one on Draycott Avenue, SW3, injuring four people; another in Chenies...
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    Exel (acquired by Deutsche Post) Ferguson (moved main listing to New York Stock Exchange) Ferranti International (collapsed in 1993) Ferrexpo FirstGroup...
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    Panel switch (category Telephone exchange equipment)
    The Panel Machine Switching System is a type of automatic telephone exchange for urban service that was used in the Bell System in the United States for...
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    Tulane Stadium (category American football venues in New Orleans)
    following the "Second Tulane Stadium", which was located where the Telephone Exchange Building is now. The former site is currently bound by Willow Street...
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    state of New York and the county seat of Monroe County. It is the fourth-most populous city and 10th most-populated municipality in New York, with a population...
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