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The Stockholm Telephone Tower with Approximately 5,500 Telephone Lines, 1890

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by Terr_

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Hmmm, depending on how quickly wire-technology advanced, it might be that putting early versions up cheaply was the right decision compared to burying cables that might become obsolete a bit sooner than you want to dig them up again.
If you're near Seattle, consider a visit to the Connections Museum [0], where you can walk among working banks of switches (clicking from various simulated internal calls) from various eras, plus samples of old cabling and handsets, etc.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connections_Museum_Seattle

by pseudohadamard

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And if you've ever been to cities in Asia or India, Bangkok being one that springs immediately to mind, you'll still see this spaghetti-explosion wiring on streets everywhere.