Draft:The Telephone Museum (Ellsworth, ME)
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The Telephone Museum is set in a rural area in Ellsworth, ME. It can be found just off Highway 1A if you're traveling between Bangor and Bar Harbor. There is a very knowledgeable and affable gentleman who gives tours starting with the original plugboard style manual switchboard and moving on all the way through Strowger type switches, and Crossbar Switch.
Along with the multiple complete and working switches there are examples of just about every type of phone used through the history of telephony.
This is an excellent stop if you're in the area and interested in the history of telephony.
The New England Museum of Telephony, Inc. was founded in 1984 as the breakup of the Bell System was taking place. The museum was created in response to the loss of an uncommon switching system known as “Panel.” After older, more established museums failed to save the switch, it was sent to the scrapyard. Its fate encouraged museum founders to continue to collect, before all evidence of a wired network, especially the larger switching systems, vanished.
Shortly after incorporation, the founders were offered the museum’s current location in Ellsworth with ample space to set up, exhibit, and operate equipment, as well as room for future expansion. The beautiful rural location, close to Bangor and tourist destination Acadia National Park, was irresistible.
The New England Museum of Telephony, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation doing business as The Telephone Museum in Ellsworth, Maine.[1]
https://thetelephonemuseum.org/
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- ^ "Old Technology Inspiring New Ideas. -". thetelephonemuseum.org. Retrieved 2023-12-21.