May 19, 2008

Speed Dialing (1939)

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A blast from the past. “Finger” Speeds Dialing (1939).

Easily attached to the top of a dial-telephone receiver, a metal finger now on the market fits snugly into the dial holes, helps prevent inaccurate dialing, eliminates the danger of broken finger nails, and speeds up the dialing process by about ten percent.

[via Modern Mechanix]

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