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| Description: Technology has changed our lives fundamentally. The connection to each telephone call used to have to be made by hand. As in this 1939 photo from London, England, these connections were made by women. Long-distance calls, with their numerous hand-made connections, not only were slow, but also expensive. In 1927, a call from New York to London cost $25 a minute. In today’s money, this comes to $300 a minute! Picture Stats: Views: 338 Filesize: 507.3kB Height: 645 Width: 519 Source: https://biology-forums.com/index.php?action=gallery;sa=view;id=27641 |