{"id":1627,"date":"2026-10-23T07:28:01","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T12:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.webstermuseum.org\/blog\/?post_type=evge_event&p=1627"},"modified":"2026-10-23T08:45:31","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T13:45:31","slug":"story-time","status":"publish","type":"evge_event","link":"https:\/\/www.webstermuseum.org\/blog\/event\/story-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Story Time"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Join Mrs. Nesbitt, a retired Webster Elementary teacher and friends, to learn how communication grew across Webster. Knowledge of our own communication will be discussed and practiced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This activity is geared toward elementary aged children. Parents must remain in the museum during the event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Please register to attend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Telephone Design over the Years<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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  • 1882 \u2014 01: Western Electric Blake Three-Box Wall Telephone<\/strong>: Early wooden wall-mounted cabinet requiring a hand-crank generator.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • 1904 \u2014 02: Western Electric No. 20B Non-Dial Candlestick<\/strong>: An upright desk model where you picked up the earpiece separately from the base.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • 1907 \u2014 03: Western Electric No. 317 Oak Wall Candlestick<\/strong>: A compact wooden wall box with an exposed bell ringer and a hanging receiver.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • 1919 \u2014 04: Western Electric No. 51AL Dial Candlestick<\/strong>: Introduced rotary dialing directly to the classic candlestick base.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • 1927 \u2014 05: Western Electric Model 102<\/strong>: An early integrated desk set combining the handset and base into a single unit.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • 1930 \u2014 06: Western Electric Model 202<\/strong>: A refined desktop rotary telephone with an improved micro-telephone base.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • 1937 \u2014 07: Western Electric Model 302<\/strong>: The iconic heavy metal desktop rotary phone (frequently called the “Lucy phone”) designed by Henry Dreyfuss.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • 1949 \u2014 08: Western Electric Model 500<\/strong>: The classic mid-century rotary desk telephone standard in American homes for decades.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • 1956 \u2014 09: Western Electric Model 554 Wall Phone<\/strong>: The wall-mounted adaptation of the durable Model 500 rotary design.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • 1959 \u2014 10: Western Electric Princess Phone<\/strong>: A smaller, lighter, illuminated rotary phone marketed toward bedrooms and young people.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • 1963 \u2014 11: Western Electric Model 1500 Touch-Tone<\/strong>: The rollout of push-button signaling replacing the rotary dial.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • 1965 \u2014 12: Western Electric Trimline Phone<\/strong>: A sleek, lightweight handset with the dial pad built right into the handle.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • 1968 \u2014 13: Western Electric Model 2500<\/strong>: The standard touch-tone desk phone featuring the * and # keys.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • 1974 \u2014 14: Bell System Sculptura Phone<\/strong>: A futuristic, curved shell-shaped specialty phone.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • 1986 \u2014 15: Deluxe Football Phone<\/strong>: Novelty novelty-shaped sports phone popular in den and rec rooms.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • 1987 \u2014 16: Panasonic KX-T3000 Cordless<\/strong>: An early consumer cordless handset with a base station.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • 1989 \u2014 17: Conair Clear Phone<\/strong>: A transparent novelty housing showing the internal circuit boards.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • 1991 \u2014 18: VTech Tropez 900DX Cordless<\/strong>: An analog 900 MHz cordless phone with a bulky green base.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • 2002 \u2014 19: VTech VT5831 5.8 GHz Cordless<\/strong>: Higher-frequency digital cordless phone reducing static interference.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • 2010 \u2014 20: AT&T TL92270 Connect to Cell<\/strong>: A modern cordless system capable of pairing with mobile cell phones via Bluetooth. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","evge_event_cat":[],"evge_event_tag":[],"class_list":["post-1627","evge_event","type-evge_event","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webstermuseum.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/evge_event\/1627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webstermuseum.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/evge_event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webstermuseum.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/evge_event"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webstermuseum.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webstermuseum.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"evge_event_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webstermuseum.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/evge_event_cat?post=1627"},{"taxonomy":"evge_event_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webstermuseum.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/evge_event_tag?post=1627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}