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BRITISH

Rotary Telephone

1958

RCIN 74638

This telephone was used by The Queen to make the first Subscriber Trunk Dialling call (STD) from Bristol to Edinburgh on 5 December 1958. This event marked the innovation that allowed calls to be made long distance in the United Kingdom without operator assistance.

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