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Description: | Effectively a short-trange mobile phone of the early 1960s. Multitone pager, no. 32. When the Natural Philosophy Department moved from Marischal College to the Natural Philosophy Building (now the Fraser Noble Building) at King's College a Natural Philosophy staff paging system was installed in the office. When a call came through for a member of the academic staff, he was paged (all male staff at the time) by the receptionist holding down a switch on the console for the number assigned to the person called. The staff member went to the nearest phone and had the call transferred through. The pager was clipped to an inside pocket of one's jacket (almost everyone wore a jacket then). The speech facility, activated by a small button on the side, allowed the staff member to talk with the receptionist but it was soon abandoned because its use produced howls in Dr Strachan's hearing-aid regardless of who was being paged. An exchange for the whole University was installed at the same time (1963) in the Natural Philosophy Building Office but was moved after a few years to rooms beneath the Science LIbrary (later re-named the Queeen Mother Library). | License: | http://www.abdn.ac.uk/historic/Copyright_terms_conditions.shtml | Publisher: | ABDNP University of Aberdeen, Natural Philosophy Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments | Rights holder: | 47718 | Temporal: | 1963 | Source: | University of Aberdeen | Identifier: | http://calms.abdn.ac.uk/Geology/dserve.e... | Go to resource |
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