Want to know what kind of equipment or the location of the switch for any US phone number? This and lots of other detailed information is available here. My central office (CO) is on McCoppin St, in San Francisco, and I'm served by a Northern Telecom DMS100.
Lots of good stuff here. Specialty arcade machines, like a photo booth equipped to distract you while the photo is taken (eg by dropping the seat, or blowing cold air at you); notes and shots for 'The Secret Life of Machines' television program; homemade cameras; various large clocks, etc.
A steam powered clock with whistle and moving figures, built 1984, in the Chelsea Farmer's Market in London. Most of the detail about this clock is on the image of the poster.
From the classic Pogo comic strip, "Deck us all with Boston Charlie", a carrol from 1948.
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