That was pretty cool. Amazing how far we've come in such a short time.

Great find, subby. I argued with a young engineer at work about this and he didn't believe they ever did it this way.

What scares me is that, because I take this stuff for granted everyday, if things were ever to go to hell overnight, I wonder if we have the capability to reproduce this kind of stuff.

hehehehe... vacuum tubes....

/non talkie looked like he was going to gank talkie at first.

qlenfg: Great find, subby. I argued with a young engineer at work about this and he didn't believe they ever did it this way.

It really does seem like an overly complex process. But when you consider what you're trying to do it really is clever.

Ah, Western Electric. That was a monopoly's monopoly. Before 1984, practically every telephone in the U.S. was made by them. And they were built to be indestructible, so if you find one today, it probably still works.

Bless you, bless you, bless you a thousand times, moderators....this liter has been submitting headlines for years, and finally got one accepted!

/laughs giddily, wipes away small tear of joy.....

//thanks also, qlenfg--glad you enjoyed this late-20s technology

Looked something along the lines of the Photophone invented by Alexander Graham Bell and his assistant in 1880. The Photophone allowed for the transmission of sound on a beam of light and transmitted the world's first wireless telephone call and then was eventually developed into fiber-optic communications. One step forward, three steps back, you know the process.

Old news toons are exciting!

Actually, it was very neat, seeing how the tech worked back in the 20s. Stick around for the big finish.