All about Telephones - Facts, Kits

 Hello everyone !!

Telephone Lineman Toolkit :

Wrenches, Pliers, SD, chisels, file, wire-stripper, putty knife (3.5"), chipping knife (4.75"), saw, hammer, measuring tape, square, rule, bits.
KS8300 dialer pencil, phone-box key.

Signal Cart [Technical Equipment of Signal Corps manual, 1916] (Pg #305-306)

Hand-axe, batteries (type-A), buckets, candles, lanterns, color cartridges, map-cases, carbide-charges, flag kits, flashlight, Acetylene torches, matches, signal pistols, rockets, smoked specs, field glasses, pocket compass, cipher disk, field message books, envelopes, erasers, heliographs, pencils, Inspector pocket kits.

Inspector's Pocket Kit (Technical Equipment of Signal Corps manual, 1916] (Pg #351)

(Screwdriver + pocket knife), scissors, pliers, file, tweezers, Screwdriver, rule.

Nachrichtentasche Bag (Nazi Germany) [1939-45]

These were used by telephone/signal corps/pioneers and would be standard issue. 

It held a report pad, pencils, tape, splicing knife, paper labels, a universal tool.

M-209 Cipher Machine Kit (US, 1942)

SD, tweezers, manuals, message books, pencils.

US Signal Corps Line-Survey Tools & Materials [US TM 11-487 (1944)] (Pg #145) 

Stakes, tags, compass, knife, shovel, pliers, flashlight, ropes, nails, wire, ruler, measuring tape, binoculars, crayons, chalk, notebook, pencil.

TE-5 Pocket Tool Kit (French Signal Corps Manual, 1944) [Pg #22]

Tweezers, scissors, pliers, file, SD, knife, rule

Barbie Phone Fun Courtney Toy Kit (1995)

Play phones, phone book, notepad, pencil.


US Prison Phone System

It allows you to make either Collect calls or Prepaid calls. 

Prepaid calls requires the inmate to have money sent in by friends/ family and posted to a phone account and then calls are made by entering the Inmate no. and a PIN.


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