Tales from Vienna - TCI Library Born in the USA and currently living in Vienna, Austria, EU, TCI member Herbert Schwarz writes about a wide variety of telephone related topics.  His topics include the Bell System of the 1960s, military telephone equipment, European outside plant and a few surprises along the way.

]]> https://www.telephonecollectors.info/index.php/browse/historian-s-corner/tales-from-vienna?format=html https://www.telephonecollectors.info/joomlatools-files/docman-images/Category_images/vienna.jpg Tales from Vienna - TCI Library https://www.telephonecollectors.info/index.php/browse/historian-s-corner/tales-from-vienna?format=html Tue, 15 Dec 2020 05:48:03 -0800 en-GB hourly 1 Tales From the Vienna Directory for 1943 Part 2 Would You Believe https://www.telephonecollectors.info/index.php/browse/historian-s-corner/tales-from-vienna/13940-tales-from-the-vienna-directory-for-1943-part-2-would-you-believe?format=html Tales From the Vienna Directory for 1943 Part 2 Would You Believe Further, but less foreboding, discoveries from the Vienna telephone directory.

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]]> pdwills@cedarknolltelephone.com (Paul W) Tales from Vienna Tue, 15 Dec 2020 05:48:03 -0800 Tales From the Vienna Directory for 1943 Part 1 Lest We Forget https://www.telephonecollectors.info/index.php/browse/historian-s-corner/tales-from-vienna/13939-tales-from-the-vienna-directory-for-1943-part-1-lest-we-forget?format=html Tales From the Vienna Directory for 1943 Part 1 Lest We Forget Prejudice and hate can sometimes be found "hidden in plain view."  In this article, Herbert takes a look at some troubling listings found Vienna telephone directory from 1943.  It's not pleasant reading but there's a lesson there for those who are willing to listen.

]]> https://www.telephonecollectors.info/index.php/browse/historian-s-corner/tales-from-vienna/13939-tales-from-the-vienna-directory-for-1943-part-1-lest-we-forget?format=html Prejudice and hate can sometimes be found "hidden in plain view."  In this article, Herbert takes a look at some troubling listings found Vienna telephone directory from 1943.  It's not pleasant reading but there's a lesson there for those who are willing to listen.

]]> pdwills@cedarknolltelephone.com (Paul W) Tales from Vienna Tue, 15 Dec 2020 05:46:06 -0800 A Different Kind of Manhattan Project https://www.telephonecollectors.info/index.php/browse/historian-s-corner/tales-from-vienna/13757-a-different-kind-of-manhatten-project?format=html A Different Kind of Manhattan Project The Manhattan was a German version of the Trimline, made to Siemens specifications by Western Electric. Sets were marked D Fe Ap 370-1 (desk), D Fe Ap 390-1 (wall), and miniset 100 (PBX). Includes photos and wiring diagrams. Contributed by Herbert Schwarz.

Herbert also covers another European version of the Trimline -- the Gondola by CITESA/ITT (Spain).

]]> https://www.telephonecollectors.info/index.php/browse/historian-s-corner/tales-from-vienna/13757-a-different-kind-of-manhatten-project?format=html The Manhattan was a German version of the Trimline, made to Siemens specifications by Western Electric. Sets were marked D Fe Ap 370-1 (desk), D Fe Ap 390-1 (wall), and miniset 100 (PBX). Includes photos and wiring diagrams. Contributed by Herbert Schwarz.

Herbert also covers another European version of the Trimline -- the Gondola by CITESA/ITT (Spain).

]]> pdwills@cedarknolltelephone.com (Paul W) Tales from Vienna Tue, 16 Jun 2020 17:09:04 -0700 Telephone Tales https://www.telephonecollectors.info/index.php/browse/historian-s-corner/tales-from-vienna/13756-telephone-tales?format=html Telephone Tales https://www.telephonecollectors.info/index.php/browse/historian-s-corner/tales-from-vienna/13756-telephone-tales?format=html pdwills@cedarknolltelephone.com (Paul W) Tales from Vienna Tue, 16 Jun 2020 17:00:32 -0700 The Great Telephone Hoax - A Forensic Analysis of the Hitler Telephone https://www.telephonecollectors.info/index.php/browse/historian-s-corner/tales-from-vienna/12684-the-great-telephone-hoax-a-forensic-analysis-of-the-hitler-telephone?format=html The Great Telephone Hoax - A Forensic Analysis of the Hitler Telephone This 183-page document summarizes extensive research done by a team of collectors and historians expanding on pre-sale auction information on a phone purported to have been owned by Adolph Hitler. The phone sold at auction for $230,000 on February 19, 2017. Did the buyer get what was expected?

Additional info can be found in an introduction to this document in the January 2019 issue of TCI's Singing Wires, and the team's pre-auction work was distributed to TCI members with the July 2017 issue.

This edition includes further research completed after the auction. There's a lot here so you can form your own opinion.

Read and enjoy!

[Opinions expressed herein are those of the authors and may not represent official positions of TCI.]

]]> https://www.telephonecollectors.info/index.php/browse/historian-s-corner/tales-from-vienna/12684-the-great-telephone-hoax-a-forensic-analysis-of-the-hitler-telephone?format=html This 183-page document summarizes extensive research done by a team of collectors and historians expanding on pre-sale auction information on a phone purported to have been owned by Adolph Hitler. The phone sold at auction for $230,000 on February 19, 2017. Did the buyer get what was expected?

Additional info can be found in an introduction to this document in the January 2019 issue of TCI's Singing Wires, and the team's pre-auction work was distributed to TCI members with the July 2017 issue.

This edition includes further research completed after the auction. There's a lot here so you can form your own opinion.

Read and enjoy!

[Opinions expressed herein are those of the authors and may not represent official positions of TCI.]

]]> paul-f@verizon.net (Paul F) Tales from Vienna Wed, 16 Jan 2019 12:11:55 -0800