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In 1880, there were so few telephones in London that it was possible for ‘1’ to be your phone number. In this clip from the 1988 CHRISTMAS LECTURES “The home of the future”, Gareth Roberts takes a look at a small, red book – the London telephone directory from that year.
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i'd love to see the full lecture this extract was from
Is there a PDF of this phone book somewhere?
I'm sure Harvey, Brand & Co got lots of calls that weren't meant for them by people who started dialing and then were too slow in adding the next number.
The same is probably true for the other numbers with just a few digits.
If number assignments started at 1, and you're number 1, then who do you call? 😛
I wish you would / could upload all of the previous Ri lectures. I would love to see this in full.