Show HOW PHONE SYSTEM BEGAN BEGAM there were only eight subscribers subscriber and the switchboard was by way of a joke one switchboard vath a capacity of eight stations that was wa the lie beginning of nf telephone service the tb first step tout toward the hie commercial do 1 of the lie lne late alexander gra linin molls bells now ruinous mention invention A crude switchboard hall been used la in diston in hut but only for export ingwal demonstration purposes pur posea IN it 1 chief was to convince the people of and casual visitors visitor of if the lie utility of hie file telephone and ot of its future ill issi bIll ties says guys telephone biess sarilee Sp tile ancestor of the lie modern bommer chil phone switchboard board was Is b stalled in new haven conn in ill 1878 front its eight lines has been evolved the hie nett tork of nf wires und and cables ronis tile lie country frani coast to const froni from a single switchboard tile lie her of within a city has increased to oller oer from froin less than it a ilist n celliers tile lie edal the lie lintins of a single city lini has lit in several cases aes to over IWO oil aind in one line casp to over under one nsf na its many us ns 0 lines linea lire are wid central offices are anre planned liml aill a capacity of mort more than double that number |