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What is the significance of telephone switchboards?
They powered everything, which made the whole thing more efficient. Rather than having a bunch of batteries out by the lines, there was a central group of batteries and power generation that came from the main office too. So when you put all this stuff together, they got really good at analyzing traffic too to kind of put resources together. where it needed in any given time.
You put all this together for the next four or five decades, the phone system just kept expanding and expanding and expanding. But there was always a frontier. These were individual cities, individual towns. And if the town or the city was close enough to another town or city, They would probably be able to connect. But for the most part, these phone systems are growing intra, well, internally.
Let's just say that. I almost got really fancy for a second, but I'm just going to say they were internal into each town, growing and growing and growing, connecting subscribers. But each town was kind of like its own isolated island of telephony.
Yeah. And so obviously the next thing to conquer would be the LD, long distance. At the time, if you wanted to pick up a phone, in New York City and call San Francisco, you couldn't do it.
No, but I say we take a break, leave this as a cliffhanger, and when we come back, we'll say whether or not they were eventually able to do it.
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