Strowger Dial Candlestick Antique Phones Internal Ringer

Internal Ringer

Created by famed industrial designer Henry Dreyfuss

If you want this phone to ring

Both the 500s and 554’s became so popular that the designer

Fully refurbished original Kellogg model 44 candlestick with dial

Strowger Dial Candlestick Antique Phones Internal RingerStrowger 11 digit desk telephone 1905 The Strowger Potbelly Candlestick was the first commercially available dial telephone. Almon Brown Strowger was an undertaker in Kansas City in the late 1800s. He believed the local telephone operator was directing all business calls to his competitor, who also happened to be her husband. In order to give subscribers total control over their calls, Strowger invented the automatic telephone exchange a. k. a. dial