The Telephone Book History

Increased home telephone customers every year to make phone books getting thicker. Telephone book is also considered one of the effective media campaign.

Special sheets are used as a promotional event in the phone book made with different color sheet non-commercial telephone customers directory. Gazette campaign was given a yellow color that is known as the Yellow Pages.

The first telephone book that published
 in New Haven, Connecticut. (Picture
from: http://www.theparisreview.org/)

On February 21, 1878, the world saw the first telephone directory. The twenty-page book, which listed the numbers of phones in New Haven, Connecticut, instructed users not to "use the wire more than three minutes at a time, or more than twice an hour."

As quoted from roscommonhistory, the first telephone book contains only 50 telephone customers directory. Furthermore, at the end of the year this phone book is no longer published in a piece of paper. The telephone book at that time already comes with several commercial pages. This is the origin of the Yellow Pages began to emerge.

On the same year, San Francisco also published the telephone book to its customers in the region. The impact of the expansion of telephone network, telephone books also explore other areas.

In 1886 Reuben H Donnelley publishes the telephone book with promotional pages are given different colors, namely yellow in Chicago. The telephone book for the first time this is referred to as the Yellow Pages. In 1906, Donnelley continues to develop a telephone book promotional page properly classified.

The telephone book development also occur on British. On January 15, 1880 published the first British's telephone book that contains 250 telephone customers in the London area, in 1896, increased to 1,350 telephone book pages and contains the list number of 81 thousand telephone subscribers. *** [EKA | FROM VARIOUS SOURCES | GI | PIKIRAN RAKYAT 14032013]

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