{"id":3463,"date":"2013-07-29T16:57:17","date_gmt":"2013-07-29T16:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/first-transcontinental-phone-call\/"},"modified":"2013-07-29T16:57:17","modified_gmt":"2013-07-29T16:57:17","slug":"first-transcontinental-phone-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/first-transcontinental-phone-call\/","title":{"rendered":"First Transcontinental Phone Call"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-1901\">\n<div class=\"format_text entry-content\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1902\" title=\"Final Pole Transcontinental Telephone Service\" alt=\"Final Pole Transcontinental Telephone Service\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/fb84d__pole_transcontinental-300x180.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" \/>July 29, 1914<\/p>\n<p>The first test call is made on the <a href=\"http:\/\/redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&#038;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.corp.att.com%2Fattlabs%2Freputation%2Ftimeline%2F15tel.html\" target=\"_blank\">newly completed transcontinental telephone line<\/a>, taking place between New York and San Francisco.\u00a0The last pole was erected and the line completed two days earlier on July 27th, but commercial service did not start until January 25th of the next year. The sixth month delay was due to AT&amp;T\u2019s wish to publicize the service in conjunction with <a href=\"http:\/\/redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&#038;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sanfranciscomemories.com%2Fppie%2Findex.html\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco\u2019s 1915 World Fair<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Previous post: <a href=\"http:\/\/redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&#038;u=http%3A%2F%2Fthisdayintechhistory.com%2F07%2F28%2Fibms-first-desktop-computer%2F\" rel=\"prev\">IBM\u2019s First Desktop Computer<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/fb84d__p-89EKCgBk8MZdE.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" \/><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/07\/29\/first-transcontinental-phone-call\/\">This Day in Tech History<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 29, 1914 The first test call is made on the newly completed transcontinental telephone line, taking place between New York and San Francisco.\u00a0The last pole was erected and the line completed two days earlier on July 27th, but commercial service did not start until January 25th of the next year. The sixth month delay [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3464,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[1279,399,392,1278],"class_list":["post-3463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-today-in-tech","tag-call","tag-first","tag-phone","tag-transcontinental"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3463"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}