Object Details
- Designer
- Henry Dreyfuss , American, 1904 – 1972
- Client
- Bell Telephone Laboratories, Washington, DC, USA
- Firm
- Henry Dreyfuss Associates
- Manufacturer
- Western Electric Manufacturing Company, USA, founded 1881
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Black rectangular plastic body with sloping top; circular clear plastic dial in center, surrounded by white numbers 1 to 0, the letters A to Y, and the word "OPERATOR", all arranged in a circle around the dial, their positions corresponding to fingerholes in dial. Barbell-shaped handset of black plastic sits in cradle on top of body; coiled black wire at one end of handset plugs into telephone body.
- Credit Line
- Transfer from Exhibitions Department
- Designed 1953, this example ca. 1980
- Accession Number
- 2009-50-1-a/c
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- appliances & tools
- Decorative Arts
- Object Name
- Telephone
- Type
- Telephone
- Medium
- Molded plastic, metal, rubber
- Dimensions
- H x W x D (not including cord): 12.3 x 21 x 22.7 cm (4 13/16 x 8 1/4 x 8 15/16 in.)
- manufactured in
- USA
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Product Design and Decorative Arts Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_2009-50-1-a_c
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq434aa927f-66d0-492d-9368-d4c9aadb5ffc
