Connections Museum in Seattle is where they should look. As deep as it gets! They maintain working switches dating back to over 100ya, massive documentation libraries, and artifacts and parts out the wazoo from telephones to teletypes to outside facilities and equipment to momentos and books and on and on.
If Connections has a weak zone in its collections, it's in the post-ATT/1984 era of cell technology and computer networking.
Open Sundays 10-3.
Howdy! Connections Musuem volunteer here at the Seattle Duwamish site. We're working on the computer networking with both IRC and dial-up modem demonstrations. We also have the DMS-10 for digital switching into the modern era.
I have my old GSM textbook, but I'm not too sure how to cook up a good incremental era demonstration of Cellular technology as of yet. I think the best we have is the display of radio telephones, and I'll look more into it.
Come on down, and we've also got some sweet postcards and t-shirts.
I was expecting something more ancient. In case anyone is interested in the humble start of world wide communications I can recommend the book Masters of space [0].
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian%E2%80%93American_Teleg... here's a great historical episode that few people are aware of attempting to cross Siberia with a telegraph line in the late 1800s. The Americans involved in the project were probably the first Americans to see that part of the world.
Also interesting is that ancestral relative of the Cold War era American Diplomat George Kennan of the same name was involved in the project. In fact it's the ancestors experience that likely led him to become a Russia expert and in turn define critical parts of American Cold War Doctrine
If Connections has a weak zone in its collections, it's in the post-ATT/1984 era of cell technology and computer networking. Open Sundays 10-3.
https://www.telcomhistory.org/connections-museum-seattle/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-R64-zYBHc
I have my old GSM textbook, but I'm not too sure how to cook up a good incremental era demonstration of Cellular technology as of yet. I think the best we have is the display of radio telephones, and I'll look more into it.
Come on down, and we've also got some sweet postcards and t-shirts.
https://cottonbureau.com/people/connections-museum
[0] https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/12375
Also interesting is that ancestral relative of the Cold War era American Diplomat George Kennan of the same name was involved in the project. In fact it's the ancestors experience that likely led him to become a Russia expert and in turn define critical parts of American Cold War Doctrine
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/12328