Automatic Telephone-Exchange System. Metadata

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Title

  • Main Title Automatic Telephone-Exchange System.
  • Added Title Automatic Telephone Exchange System.

Creator

  • Inventor: Serdinko, John
    Creator Type: Personal
    Creator Info: John Serdinko, of New Braunfels, Texas.

Contributor

  • Witness: Weber, R.
    Contributor Type: Personal
  • Witness: Deutsch, O. H.
    Contributor Type: Personal
  • Witness: Sedgwick, C.
    Contributor Type: Personal
    Contributor Info: Witness for Illustration.
  • Other: Munn & Co.
    Contributor Type: Organization
    Contributor Info: Attorneys.
  • Printer: National Lithographing Company
    Contributor Type: Organization
    Contributor Info: The National Lithographing Company, Washington, D. C.

Publisher

  • Name: United States. Patent Office.
    Place of Publication: [Washington D.C.]

Date

  • Creation: 1893-12-05
  • Acceptance Date: 1893-12-05
  • Submission Date: 1893-04-22

Language

  • English

Description

  • Content Description: Patent for "a simple system and arrangement which is especially adapted for a telephone exchange, which enables the instruments to be connected by a single wire, which dispenses with the use of an operator at the central station, which has automatic means for registering the messages sent by each subscriber, and which is provided with an automatic switching device by means of which one subscriber may connect with any other" (lines 10-19).
  • Physical Description: [4], 5 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject

  • Library of Congress Subject Headings: Inventions
  • University of North Texas Libraries Browse Structure: Science and Technology
  • University of North Texas Libraries Browse Structure: Business, Economics and Finance - Communications - Telephones
  • University of North Texas Libraries Browse Structure: Business, Economics and Finance - Electricity
  • Keyword: traffic
  • Keyword: automatic
  • Keyword: meters

Primary Source

  • Item is a Primary Source

Coverage

  • Place Name: United States - Texas - Comal County - New Braunfels

Collection

  • Name: Texas Patents
    Code: TXPT

Institution

  • Name: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
    Code: UNTGD

Rights

  • Rights License: pd

Resource Type

  • Patent

Format

  • Text

Identifier

  • Accession or Local Control No: 510195
  • Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metapth173583

Note

  • Display Note: Application filed April 22, 1893. Serial No. 471,390. (No model.)
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