The hospital offers its VIP patients private lines that are connected directly to their rooms, but the Australian DJs were able to reach the Duchess's personal nurse via the switchboard in an apparent breach of procedure.
In one lab, hundreds of researchers have been working to create an automated switchboard; in another, a hushed "sanctum," mathematicians are exploring the relationship between population density and what we'd now call bandwidth.
It has been a "theoretical" exchange since 1941, when its number began to be carried in a small way on spare mechanical switchboards in the W. 50th St. telephone bldg., the home of such exchanges as Columbus, Circle, etc.
At the sound of the noon whistle, the pixies come down and take charge of most of the telephone switchboards in our apartment houses and office.
Operating switchboards in France, they juggled constantly shifting lists of codes and connections, worked fast amid artillery blasts, and mastered the "genteel diplomacy" needed to communicate with officials in French as well as English.
The New Yorker, February 22 , 1930 P. 22At the sound of the noon whistle, the pixies come down and take charge of most of the telephone switchboards in our apartment houses and office.
By Robert Benchley The New Yorker, February 22 , 1930 P. 22At the sound of the noon whistle, the pixies come down and take charge of most of the telephone switchboards in our apartment houses and office.
The name is drawn from the idea that the way companies collaborate today is sort of like phone line switchboards in the 1950s.
It also might not be a coincidence that all of these high-octane offenses are burning out scoreboard switchboards in lesser bowls while the two of the stingiest defenses in the land are contending for the only trophy that truly matters.
In a very effective application of a GIS system, the Mid-American Geospatoal Inforescuen Centre helped to rescue more than 25,000 survivors by using a GIS system to match 9-1-1 calls fromobilele phone calls in New Orleans hours after Katrina to GPS coordinates and street addresses on emergency switchboards in real time.
