Show PACTS FACTS ABOUT THE TELEPHONE new york city has more telephones than great britain and chicago has more telephones than france 4 0 0 40 3 the flut first school tor for telephone ele switchboard operators was started by the new york telephone company jn in 1902 40 0 0 a 1001 in proportion to the population there are ten times as many telephones in the united states as there are in europe 40 0 4 the popularity of the telephone in this country is shown by the fact that in in 1922 calls were made an average of calls per working day 41 41 40 the city of springfield massachusetts which has practically the same population as auckland has nearly three times as many telephones as the new zealand city 0 ao 00 0 during the year 1921 the net increase in the number of telephones in operation in the united states was over while the whole of europe which contains over four times as many people as this country gained only a little over telephones |