THROWBACK: A Look Back at AT&T’s Introduction to Dial Telephones in 1936

On this spectacular day, National Telephone Day, we look back on the influential history of the telephone.

Here is a newsreel from 1936 done by AT&T that explains how to use the “brand new” dial telephone. A young girl demonstrates how to use the futuristic device as the announcer explains the various sound.

Now sit back and let the realization hit that these all-too familiar sounds are not-so familiar to today’s younger generations.