Kellogg Grabaphone
KelloggKelloggThe Kellogg Switchboard and Supply Company was an American manufacturer of telecommunication equipment. Anticipating the expiration of the earliest, fundamental Bell System patents, Milo G. Kellogg, an electrical engineer, founded the company in 1897 in Chicago to produce telephone exchange equipment and telephone apparatus.Read more on Wikipedia → · 1900s
Categories: American · Contributor/source: Tom Herwer
About This Phone
Circa 1909. The Grabaphone, modeled after French made telephones, was the first phone to include the receiver and transmitter in the same unit, placed in a cradle atop the phone. It was called Grabaphone because you could just "grab" it with one hand to make a call.
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