1. 1980s rotary dial, push button and touch tone telephone.
2. The 1940s rotary dial telephone.
3. The 1930s rotary dial telephone.
4. The GPO 121F wall telephone of 1924.
5. The 1920s telephone.
6. The 1905s telephone. This 1905s model of telephone was called a skeletal phone and sometimes called an Eiffel Tower phone by collectors.
7. The 1895s line corded candlestick phone without a dial was also known as 'Upright" initially became popular during the early 1900s was made from the early 1890s through the 1920s.
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Sandra Nwaiku of Technology Times explores antique telephones and allied artefacts from the world of analogue telephony as they are curated at the Telecommunications Museum established by the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) at the telecoms regulator’s head office in Abuja.
The NCC Telecommunications Museum, where significant and historical telecommunications objects are exhibited offers visitors a walk through the historical evolution and use of key services ranging from postal, telegraphy, analogue and digital telephony, among others.
The NCC Telecommunications Museum is today home to old scientific, artistic and cultural objects that captured the history of Nigerian postal services like stamps, mail bags and a model of 1895 telephone equipment, among other artefacts.
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