100 years of telephones in Germany - Germany / Federal Republic of Germany 1977 - 50 Pfennig

In October 1877, the German general postmaster Stephan were informed of the first detailed details of the invented by Bell in 1876 telephone. Bell had also known in his invention, the work of Philipp Reis, who had spoken on October 26, 1861 in the Physical Association of Frankfurt am Main on his "telephone". On October 24, 1877, Stephan received from the Head of the Central Telegraph Office in London two Bell Phones, the first to come to Europe telephone sets. That same day, Stephan had experiments started with the new devices, which are quite well on a telephone line between the General Post Office Berlin, Leipziger Strasse, and the General Telegraph Office, Französische Strasse. On October 26, Stephan declared, "Gentlemen! We have to remember this day! "He is to be regarded as the birthday of the telephone in Germany. In the following days and weeks, the experiments were continued, and already at the end of November appeared a service instruction for the operation of telegraph lines with telephones. In 1881 the first telephone exchanges were set up in large German cities, which at first served only local traffic, but soon also long-distance traffic. With the improvement of technical facilities, the number of telephone subscribers increased and thus the possibility of long-distance telephone calls in Germany and with the neighboring foreign countries to lead. As early as 1908, the first European dial telephony office was set up in Hildesheim. The World War from 1914 to 1918 was not conducive to the further expansion of the dialing operation, it could not be resumed until 1922. A year later opened the self-dialing service in the Weilheim area with five local networks. From now on, the development was unstoppable, it was only interrupted by the Second World War. Then they continued the expansion of the telephone networks. The last hand-operated telephone local exchange of the German Federal Post Office was decommissioned in 1966. As early as 1955, the self-dialing service was started with foreign countries, and today 35 countries can be reached from the Federal Republic of Germany in the Selbstwählferndienst. Communication between people all over the world has become easier.