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Posted on 7th June 20197th June 2019

Patch panels – 1890 style

www.rarehistoricalphotos.com

Check out this link about the Stockholm telephone tower on the excellent Rare Historical Photos site. On the thumbnail you can see what looks like fog or low cloud over the tower, but it’s actually a mass of telephone cables. They had no switches back then and had to wire everything directly to a central hub.

The Stockholm Telephone Tower with approximately 5,500 telephone lines, 1890

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