telephony

Example Sentences

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For Luis, the outwardly dull telephony work has provided the anchor he needs to stay out of crime, something he says ex-gang members he knows in the US struggle with.

From BBC • Apr. 30, 2025

We jumped directly from human operators to something called the panel switch, a near-miracle of telephony in the 1910s and ’20s.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 26, 2024

“Legacy” networks that transmit calls the way they did before the internet revolutionized telephony aren’t covered.

From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2022

The era of commercial telephony began when Thomas Edison, who had invented the phonograph just a year prior, telephoned from his home in Menlo Park, New Jersey, to Philadelphia in 1878.

From Slate • Aug. 21, 2019

In the first part of this chapter the electron explains the part it plays in ordinary telephony.

From Autobiography of an Electron Wherein the Scientific Ideas of the Present Time Are Explained in an Interesting and Novel Fashion by Gibson, Charles R. (Charles Robert)