Refurbished and ready to go in September

1960's Executive wood chest phones
1941 Military phone
1919 Hotel intercom phone
1918 Mother-in-law phone
Bakelite and metal French phones

1916 Blickensderfer 8 typewriter
Standard aluminum typewriter

1920's Columbia Gramophone
1910's 2 Victrola Gramophones

1940's Bakelite radios

In the 1870s, two inventors Elisha Gray and Alexander Graham Bell both independently designed devices that could transmit speech electrically (the telephone). Both men rushed their respective designs to the patent office within hours of each other, Alexander Graham Bell patented his telephone first. Elisha Gray and Alexander Graham Bell entered into a famous legal battle over the invention of the telephone, which Bell won.

Christopher Latham Sholes was a U.S. mechanical engineer who invented the first practical modern typewriter, patented in 1868 and was manufactured (by Remington Arms Company) in 1873. The type-bar system and the universal keyboard were the machine's novelty, but the keys jammed easily. James Densmore suggested splitting up keys for letters commonly used together to slow down typing, producing the standard "QWERTY" keyboard.