Michael Nutt documents a rotary telephone project allowing a 4 year old to call select numbers, the subway schedule and songs.
Recently we went to the MoMA with my 4 year old son. Some modern art is hard to appreciate as a kid, but the exhibit he loved was one where they had a bunch of rotary phones and you could dial a number and it would read you a poem. I wanted to replicate something like this at home.
60 years ago, every household in America had one or more rotary phones, so they’re not exactly hard to find. I bought one off of Ebay for ~$25. I got a Western Electric Bell 500.
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