Once upon a time, whenever someone referred to "the telephone," they meant the Western Electric 500. Debuting in 1949 ... Like Ford's Model T, it was wildly popular. Five years passed before ...

For sturdy utilitarianism, there were few designs better than the Western Electric Model 500 desk phone. The 500 did one thing and did it well, and remained essentially unchanged from the mid ...

"Can I use my telephone to call Grandma?" my daughter asks. She means the Western Electric model 500 we bought at an antiques store at her insistence -- a curiosity that is now more household ...

A Western Electric model 500 telephone made in the 1950s. Think about how much life has changed since Hurricane Andrew, some 24 years ago. We likely had that wall phone in the kitchen with the ...

For sturdy utilitarianism, there were few designs better than the Western Electric Model 500 desk phone. The 500 did one thing and did it well, and remained essentially unchanged from the mid ...

This one caught my eye on twitter - a Redditor has converted a 1961 Western Electric Model 500 old-style telephone into a rotary cell phone using Arduino. It's an impressive project that not only uses ...