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- Season 4 Roller Coaster Safety: How to Manage Too Many Trains at Once
- Season 4 Laserdisc: An Introduction
- Season 4 Thrift Store Hi-Fi: Some tips and tricks
- Season 4 Laserdisc's Failure: What Went Wrong
- Season 4 Chevy Bolt EV: Winter Range and Performance (Chicago winter)
- Season 4 Laserdisc: Features, Follies, & Evolution
- Season 4 Faking It: The Obviously Dubbed Telephone Ring
- Season 4 A Short Project Involving LEDs, a Fish Tank, and some Laziness
- Season 4 DVD: The Death Knell of Laserdisc
- Season 4 Sony's Clever but Flawed PlayStation Copy Protection--And How They Might Have Fixed It
- Season 4 The CD Player with a Robot Inside: Pioneer CLD-M301
- Season 4 These Are Not Pixels: Revisited
- Season 4 The Weird Typewriter-Computer Hybrid: Smith Corona PWP-3200
- Season 4 The LED Traffic Light and the Danger of "But Sometimes!"
- Season 4 Macrovision: The Copy Protection in VHS
- Season 4 MUSE Hi-Vision Laserdisc: The Blu-ray of 1994
- Season 4 Chevy Bolt EV Summer Range Test
- Season 4 The High Pressure Sodium Light: Ubiquitous, effective, but good?
- Season 4 The LED's Challenge to High Pressure Sodium
- Season 4 The Not-So-Secret Secret Elevators of the Haunted Mansion
- Season 4 The Most Common EV Charging Misconception
- Season 4 Betamovie: Sony's Terrible (But Ingenious) Camcorder
- Season 4 The Senseless Ambiguity of North American Turn Signals
- Season 4 Sound By Numbers: The Rise of Digital Sound
- Season 4 Nyquist-Shannon; The Backbone of Digital Sound
- Season 4 The GFCI/RCD: A Simple but Life-Saving Protector
- Season 4 The Compact Disc: An Introduction
- Season 4 Dissecting the CD Player: How to Turn Shiny Plastic into Music
- Season 4 LED Printers: The Common Printing Tech You Haven't Heard Of
- Season 4 An Oscilloscope Bonus: 20+ Minutes of Poking Around a CD player
- Season 4 CDs: More to Talk About (Sony vs. Philips)
- Season 4 TC Projects: Lead-Acid Battery Backup
- Season 4 CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW, Books of Red, Blue, Purple, Beige, Orange, Scarlet...
- Season 4 The Ubiquitous Sound That You May Have Never Noticed
- Season 4 LightScribe: HP's Clever Twist on the CD Burner
- Season 4 LED Experiments: Making Holiday Lights Less Garish
- Season 4 Closed Captioning: More Ingenious than You Know
- Season 4 The Superheterodyne Radio: No really, that's its name
Technology Connections - Season 4 Episode 7 Faking It: The Obviously Dubbed Telephone Ring
0.00 48 minutes If you lived in North America any time in the 20th century, you probably ran across one of these telephones. The Western Electric Model 500 and its subsequent variants were so ubiquitous that you almost couldn't go anywhere without seeing one, especially in the United States where it was standard equipment from the phone company.
Even if you're not American, if you've seen any of our movies, you'll have seen this phone, too. A literal fixture of American life, this phone was inescapable. But its ubiquity also caused some filmmakers or TV show producers to get a little lazy. This video tells that story.
