“ICED TELEPHONES”
U.S. GUESTS COMPLAIN OF HOT EARS LONDON HOTEL’S REMEDY London doesn’t often get heat waves —but when they arrive the British inventiveness rises to. the occasion, admits a United States newspaper. Recently, for instance, with the temperature hovering around 90, American guests at the Savoy Hotel complained that their telephone conversations to New .York—at 15 dollars a minute —were seriously complicated by the discomfort of holding hot vulcanite telephone receivers to the ear. “We’ll fix that,” decided the hotel’s chief Press agent—and forthwith he had the electrical department of the hotel produce the world’s first iced telephone earpiece. it is made of a special substance and contains an entirely new kind of freezing mixture that is perceptible through the casing only when warmth is applied to it.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 816, 9 November 1929, Page 13
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