By Jan Verhelst
date | title | publication | country | language | remarks |
2024 | Art deco phone ATEA51 | THG journal, Autumn 2024 | UK | eng | Art deco phone ATEA 51 |
2024 | BTMC Golfball Candlestick | Singing Wires, August 2024 | USA | eng | European Telephone Story: BTMC Golfball Candlestick |
2024 | P.Vande Meerssche, Belgium | Singing wires, June 2024 | USA | eng | European Telephone Story: P.Vande Meerssche, Belgium |
2024 | Hide a phone | eng | around 1900 upper-class people opted sometimes to hide their telephone | ||
2024 | Introduction to the European Telephone Story | Singing Wires, April 2024 | USA | eng | introduction iconic European telephones |
2024 | Unusual ATEA phone from the 1920s | THG journal, spring 2024 | UK | eng | ATEA version of the British TELE121 (end of the 1920s). |
2024 | A bundle of bamboo | Singing Wires, February 2024 | USA | eng | A bundle of bamboo used to connect "mobile" in the 1920s in the jungle |
2023 | The directaphone | THG journal, winter 2023-2024 | UK | eng | The directaphone |
2023 | GTE ATEA Blind operator | THG journal, winter 2023-2024 | UK | eng | GTE ATEA blind operator's switchboard |
2023 | Get together of "telephone enthusiasts" of Western-Europe on August 26; 2023 in Arnhem, The Netherlands | Singing Wires; October 2023 | USA | eng | Singing Wires publication |
2023 | Remarkable Story of an ATEA Telephone | Singing Wires, March-April 2023 | USA | eng | Story of an ATEA phone, manufactured for more then 30 years |
2022 | Telephone wiring in Spain in the 1920s | UK/USA | eng |
Addendum to
History of telephony wiring seen through old postcards |
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2022 | Background of "Theodore Gary" and his companies | Singing Wires, April 2022 | USA | eng | Background of Theodore Gary and his companies |
2021 | First "payphone" in Belgium- addendum | THG journal, winter 2021-2022 | UK/USA | eng | Addition previous article in Spring 2021 |
2021 | History of telephony wiring seen trhough old postcards | Singing Wires, November 2021 THG journal, spring 2022 |
USA/UK | eng |
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2021 | A marvellous Belgian Telephone from around 1890 | October 2021, Winter 2021-2022 | UK/USA | eng | |
2021 | The Automatic Electric AE-1 and derivatives | THG Journal, Summer 2021 | UK | eng | |
2021 | First "payphone" in Belgium ca 1913 | THG journal, Spring 2021 Singing Wires |
UK
USA |
eng | |
2020 |
How to encourage entrepreneurs to
start using telephony in the beginning of the 20th century |
THG journal/SInging Wires | UK/USA |
eng |
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2020 | ATEA using RAT technology | THG journal, Autumn 2020 | UK | eng | When ATEA started with automatic exchanges in the 1920s, they manufactured under licence systems from the British Relay Automatic Telephony (=RAT) |
2019/2020 | FIrst West-European get-together of telephone collectors | THG journal 112, winter
2019/2020 Singing Wires, April 2020 |
UK/USA | eng | "Report" of a get-together of West-European phone collectors and historians. |
2020 |
How to encourage entrepreneurs to
start using telephony in the beginning of the 20th century |
THG journal/ Singing Wires | UK/USA | eng |
Introduction on intercom systems in the beginning of the 20th century
- Publication in Singing Wires, June 2020 |
Summer 2019 | François Van Rysselberghe | eng | |||
Spring/ Summer 2017 | VOBW: Voice over Barbed Wire | Telecom History Journal,
Spring/Summer 2017 |
UK | eng | An article over using a barbed wire fence in the Wild West for use as a telephone network. |
November 2016 | Back to Square One | BE | eng | In 1882 BTMC was founded, and in 1892 ATEA was erected by people who were fired at BTMC. In 2016 both companies came back together, or "Back to Square One" | |
October 2016 | European Telephone Manufacturing in the 1890s by smaller companies | Telecom History Journal, Autumn 2016 | UK | eng | How European vendors copied telephone design around the end of the 19th century |
May 2016 | Who owns whom? | Singing Wires, May 2016 | USA | eng |
Which telephone company owns which other? also published in THG Journal, Spring 2016 |
Feb 2016 | Computer and Telephony Integration is an ongoing process | Singing Wires, February 2016 | USA | eng | Article about the integration of Computer and Telephony, based on the acutal integration of Alcatel-Lucent and Nokia. |
Jan 2016 | The directaphone | Singing Wires, January 2016 | USA | eng | Article about a remarkable unique device made by ATEA in the beginning of the 1950s |
Autumn 2015 |
The automation of the telephone network in Greece |
Telecom History Journal, issue 92 | UK | eng | Article about the automation of the telephone network in Greece in the 1920s, where ATEA tried to take part |
Aug 2015 |
The Automatic Electric AE1 and derived phones by overseas companies |
Singing wires, vol 29 nr 8 | USA | eng | Automatic Electric Electric released the AE Monophone #1 in 1925. It is interesting to see how overseas companies in the UK, Italy and Belgium made derivative versions. |
October 2014 | Antwerp Telecom city | museum MAS | BE | eng | brochure about a mini-exhibition on telecom in an Antwerp museum |
April 2014 | Micro-fone | Singing Wires | USA | eng | Article about the first credit card verification phone |
February 2014 | ATEA type 51 | Singing Wires | USA | eng | Article about ATEA type 51 wallphone |
2014 | Atea and WW II | Singing Wires, THG Journal |
USA/UK | eng | During WWII ATEA had to work for Siemens |
May 2014 | Evolution of PABX attendant's consoles | Singing Wires, vol 28, nr 5 | USA | eng | Evolution of a PABX attendant console over the years |
April 2014 | Phone of the Month: GTE Micro-Fone | Singing Wires, vol 28, nr 4 | USA | eng | Description of the Micro-phone, the first telephone with data capabilties. |
Feb 2014 | Phone of the month: ATEA Type 51 | Singing Wires, vol 28, nr 2 | USA | eng | Description of an ATEA "art déco" phone |
Spring/Summer 2014 | Atea during WW II | Telecom History Journal , issue 86/87 | UK | eng | During WW 2, ATEA was in occupied territory and had to work under Siemens management |
Dec 2013 | VOBW: Voice Over Barbed Wire fences | Singing Wires bonus pages, vol 27, nr 11 | USA | eng | An article over using a barbed wire fence in the Wild West for use as a telephone network. |
Spring 2013 | Remarkable Story of an ATEA Telephone | Telecom History Journal , issue 82 | UK | eng | A remarkable ATEA telephone, manufactured for almost 30 years. |
October 2012 | An old noble family, a castle, the American army, and an ATEA PABX during WW II | Singing Wires; vol 26, nr 10 | USA | eng | Remarkable story of a US army lieutenant who took an ATEA PABX as spoil of war during WW 2 |
Spring 2012 | Theodore Gary and his companies | Telecom History Journal , issue 78, | UK | eng | Story of Theodore Gary, a key business man who did a lot for international phone companies related to Automatic Electric |
Spring 2012 | A History of ATEA 1892-1999 | Telecom History Journal , issue 78, | UK | eng | Rich illustrated English version of the ATEA story |
juli/aug 2012 | History of the ATEA | Singing Wires; vol 26, nr 7 & 8 | USA | eng | Rich illustrated ATEA Story |
May 2012 |
Commercial Cable Company, Antwerp Staton |
Website | USA | eng |
History of the
Atlantic Cable & Undersea Communications, Commercial Cable Company:
Antwerp Station by Jan Verhelst and Bill Burns
History of the Atlantic Cable & Undersea Communications from the first submarine cable of 1850 to the worldwide fiber optic network |
2009 |
The Bell Telephone Manufacturing Company of Antwerp, Belgium |
Website | Austra lia |
eng | Article by Bob Estreich and Jan Verhelst |
2009 | Automatic Electric | Website | austra lia |
eng | Story of Automatic Electric, written by an Australian with my assistance; |
laatst gewijzigd op 09/09/24 door Jan Verhelst