How to Use a Rotary Dial Phone / Telephone
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- čas přidán 12. 01. 2021
- Today we are used to phones where we press screens or touch buttons. But some years ago rotary dial phones were used. The number had to be dialled using a rotary dial.
Today, many younger people can be baffled by these rotary dial phones. Older people were brought up being shown how to use a rotary dial phone, but not so with many younger people.
There were many sorts of rotary dial telephone, but all used the same basic principle.
First you had to lift the phone receiver, and then place a finger in the hole for the number required. Then rotate the dial round to the end-stop, and let the dial return under its own power. The process was repeated for each individual digit in the telephone number.
Once the number was dialled the exchange would connect the number and the call would take place using the telephone. When the call was finished the handset receiver was replaced.
There are many different types of rotary dial phone. The old candlestick telephones were widely used in the early 1900s and these gave way to slightly more modern ones. These modern rotary dial phones looked a little more stylish, and could be supplied in a variety of colours - older dial phones were almost alway black, although there were a few exceptions.
The rotary dial mechanisms were quite complicated, but worked very reliably. They created a series of pulses which were interpreted by the telephone exchange and enabled the right number to be connected. These pulses needed to be sent out at the right speed by the dial.
Knowing how to use a rotary dial telephone phone can still be useful because they can still be found in in use in some places and knowing how to use a rotary dial phone can be useful if a call needs to be made with one.
The phones used in this video were an old candlestick phone, a 300 series GPO telephone (Type 332 phone to be exact) and a cream GPO Type 746 telephone.
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Whenever I was younger and tried this, i've been doing it the right way, yet my parents always told me i was doing it wrong but never showed me the right way. What the heck.
Same here. Though I suspect it was so that we didn't bother trying to use the phone.
thats literally the exact same reason i watched this video
I don’t know why but his voice is so soothing. It’s like ASMR.
I still have and use a rotary phone. It’s one my mom bought back in the 60s, possibly late 50s.
Those rotary dial phones look really good. They can be quite a talking point.
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Omg lucky !
They use easy to use
I always kinda figured that’s how they worked, but I’ve never seen one actually connected for use
Glad you could see one of these phones working.
going to buy a few of these, so I can keep in touch with family when we have the huge power cuts that's coming this winter
did you buy those ? they won't work, if the exchange power is cut off.
You could just buy any phone that is connected by a landline and cord.
I think these things are going to make a comeback.
They are certainly great fun to use. I like them a lot!!
Thanks you so much 💕 i recently bought a good condition British Indian 100 years old telephone which your vedio is useful 🎉
I’m glad the video was useful. Yes those old dial phones are interesting and have a lot of character.
Big advantage was that they needed no electricity or battery charge.
We tend to forget that aspect of their operation. You are so right!
They did get electricity from the phone line to operate the ringer. In the US I think it's around 48 Volts DC.
I grew up with rotary dial phones. I’m 53 years old (born in 1970) and we had two landline phones in the house I grew up in, one downstairs and one upstairs. At some point in the mid to late 1980’s my parents upgraded to push button style landline phones. They still use those push button phones to this very day in 2023! I found this video while searching rotary dial telephones on google because my 19 year old daughter has never seen one except in movies and she was confused about how they work lol. Thanks for this video, I’m going to show this to her!
That is a great story - thanks for letting us all know. It seems amazing to us that young people would not know how to use them. However I certainly forget that they’ve never seen them & how would they know how to use them.
In fact the inspiration for the video arose out of the fact that a number of young people I knew didn’t have a clue about how to use them.
I’m glad you liked the video. Comments like yours make it worth while. Thank you for taking the time to comment.
@@ElectronicsNotesYou’re welcome, and thank you for taking the time to reply!
You are welcome.
My grandma had a Phone like this. Feel so silly, 'cause I couldn't figure out how it worked when I was younger. 😂😂
You’d be quite surprised how many youngsters these days don’t know either. If you hadn’t used one when they were commonplace why should you know!
Oh my god I misread your comment and had a panic attack when I thought you said "My grandma had a iPhone like this"
@@TheLordOfNothingLol 😂 She has never even owned a mobile phone.
@@lizettesvensson I had a real panic attack a few comments down when someone said
"I just bought one. How do I get a number for it? Where is the SIM card insert?"
@@TheLordOfNothing Oh, the humanity 😅😂
This is about close to how i thought they worked. However I had to watch it to make sure. So many older folks act so smug about the younger generation not knowing how to use them that I decided to learn so I could catch em off guard next time it comes up in a conversation lol.
Great idea! Love it.
You missed the bit about waiting for dial tone before commencing dialling! Won't work if you start before the exchange is ready.
Good point, although the main focus of the video was to show how to actually dial, and certainly over the past years, the dial tone, at least on my phones has been there very quickly. But as you say, in some areas, and also years ago, the dial tome may take a second or so to come through.
the part you clicked for: 1:07
(halfway into the video)
I remember using this one at grandma house as a kid and that was already year 2003 or 2004😅
They are fun aren’t they!
I love them
They certainly have a lot of character.
Really as easy as it looks, thanks still
You're welcome 😊
I just loved the candlestick telephone. I would use it, if I still had a landline. Do they still make the candlestick telephones, anymore?
They are not made in their original form, but I am sure some company somewhere makes a modern form of them.
Oh neat so I do know how to use one of them :o
I thought I knew but since I plan on getting one for when I finally can move out, I wanted to be sure I knew and yes I knew
I’m pleased that you were able to find the video useful.
Please make a Video on the mechanism of Rotary Dial pulsing circuit
Interesting idea - not sure yet whether it is feasible, but I will investigate the idea.
Damn, people would really have their phones and addresses recorded on a phone book
It seems like another world now: phone books, lists of people and numbers . . .
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im here because of the rusty lake paradox chapter.... couldn't solve the rotater phone lmao 😭
I grew up with these. I now got a vintage one and seems to have a dial tone but when I dial the numbers it gives me the local telecom line's emergency service dial request. Maybe I have to dial other things before the number now. I'm in the US.
That is strange. Not sure why, but many telecoms networks are removing the capability for old dial phone dialling as it is old technology & they need to maintain additional capabilities for just a few dial phones.
@@ElectronicsNotes makes sense. the good thing is at least it received calls from outside. will be calling the telecom company and doing more research to see if i can resolve the calling out issue.
I wonderinf how does we get the number phone for rotary telephone like this? I mean does rotary telephone got something like a sim card??
No SIM cards for these phones - invented well before that era. A number was assigned to the telephone line, and that is the way the number is allocated. It is done by the telephone company and implemented in the local telephone exchange.
This comment genuinely gave me a panic attack but I can't blame you. You need landline service or a CELL2JACK.
thanks now i can complete my Nancy Elsner cosplay!
here because the game Jazzpunk makes you use a rotary phone for a puzzle
A few years ago we did show an old 1920's candlestick telephone dialling and ringing on a Channel 4 UK TV show called "Find it Fix it Flog it" I wonder what the younger viewers thought :-) czcams.com/video/yuOKKg3izKQ/video.html
If , I want to purchase this type telephone ☎️ for home.
So, how can I get it ?
Gude me , reply me soon.
It is difficult to say where you can purchase them in your country. I think it is a matter of searching on the Internet.
I've seen it during early 90s but never had a chance to touch it
There are still some dial phones available in the vintage markets depending where you live. The issue is that many phone companies are now removing the old technology and these phone may not work on the network.
I used this for a puzzle in there is no game
Hindi audio available pls
Unfortunately we do not have the ability to do this. Sorry.
How do I make a phone number for one of these so someone can call me
You need to have a landline installed and the telecom provider will give you a number.
@@ElectronicsNotes ok thank you so much
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I suppose it's possible for people to be young enough to never have used one.
Seeing some local young people not knowing how to use a dial phone was the inspiration to make the video. I was quite surprised how difficult they found it to work out how to use these phones. I did not want to embarrass them by including them on the video, but thought it could be useful to make a video for others, and also as review of old technology.
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Merci beaucoup, bisous sur la fesse gauche
Easy to talk in bathroom
Interesting comment - it was not the use I had in mind for them! 🤣