Telephones as Alarm Clocks.

Press, Volume L, Issue 15017, 11 July 1914, Page 11

Telephones as Alarm Clocks.

If you Avant to catch'an. early train there is no need now to buy a special - alarm clock (says the Iroridon "Evening Standard"); if you want, in fact, to '' do anything at any particular time, \ thoro is no need ; to rely either upon - Jour own efforts or upon the possibility L- ci i-lisa Jane failing to call you. All [~ you have to do is to ring up from your -_ o-n number tho supervisor ot your wn exchange. You tell her your number and state that you ivant to bo -ailed, say, at 7.30 to-morrow morning; v W, iudeed, at any time of the day or , ( " Bight.-; The request is docketed by tho *• ,-Upcrvisor and giA-en to the operator, „4 r *°° rings your boll at the appointed JT ume. and keeps ringing it until you ■£- iS 55 **" 61 "- For this service tho charge of % ol *"*"* €a - i* 3 -idded to your account. j _ c * ,urw - *^ c system has its disadvan- { .H^ 6 **?: If you have no bedside -'tele-. •*- • only want to he reminded to .. **'-* 7 JF 4 _-Jr ""medicine every two hours, it * J_ w "i,*°-' r *ther disconcerting to have f' three flights of stairs in ";♦; $*>**■ « ver J time, to stop tho bell in the haU, so that you could : 4?(T * again. But that can be •"'i* '/■"s'..i''t-'■''' ■: . ■

"obviated by having an extension wiro fitted to your instrument,. so that on such occasions it can rest with your watch and your book and the reading lamp on the littlo tablo next to your bed. A. moro serious difficulty is" the human element of error at tho exchange, with the dread possibility of a "wrong number."