DOOM OF THE TELEPHONE GIRL.
After exhaustive tests the French Government has adopted the automatic telephone invention of a Russian engineer. The apparatus does away with " central" girls. The subscriber turns five discs, each numbered from 0 to 9, a.nd form the number wanted, whereupon the correspondent is called automatically. If he is absent a sign soon appears, saying-. "Rang one minute; no answer," while the caller's number is registered at the other end, so that he may be called if the person sought returns. When the number desired is already "busy" a special buzz is. immediately heard. In order not to dismiss ail the telephone girls together, which might disturb the labour market, the new system will be introduced gradually. Three towns of moderate size are being equipped —Limoges, Nimes, and Dijon. A strange light is thrown on French methods by the fact that the apparatus would have been adopted two years ago it the police side of tke Government, which has always found the telephone exceedingly useful, had not insisted that secret conversations should bo audible to a third party when desired.,
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12070, 13 September 1902, Page 2 (Supplement)
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184DOOM OF THE TELEPHONE GIRL. New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12070, 13 September 1902, Page 2 (Supplement)
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