1890 Swedish telephone tower - photo

[Altair]

1890 telephone tower in Stockholm, Sweden.

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Previously:

1897 telegraph inking register - GIF
Maintaining telephone switches in the 1930s - photo
1920s telephone lineman - photo
Barbed wire telephone lines - photos
1855 Hughes teleprinter - photo

[Frank S]

looks like they could have installed a few more phone lines if they had tried

[DIYSwede]

-Yeah, our linemen were such wimps, even back in those days!

In November 1890, Stockholm had below -40 C and F, too (Coincidence, you say?).
That record haven't been broken any month ever since in the capital.

[edslc682]

Kinda looks like an early version of G. Fiber. Wonder how the birds find the right wire to perch on. In an ice storm, it looks like it could become one solid block.