Craftsman Earns Living Making Gold and Silver Telephones (Mar, 1935)
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Source: Modern Mechanix ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Mar, 1935
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Source: Modern Mechanix ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Mar, 1935
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Craftsman Earns Living Making Gold and Silver Telephones
PORTER BLANCHARD, Los Angeles inventor, takes a great delight in beautifying the more simple household articles found in every home and has even gone so far as to produce telephones from silver and gold at a total cost of $500 each.
The phones, of the ordinary French type are entirely taken apart and dipped into an electroplating solution. Current is passed through the solution to plate the various telephone parts.
Several times during the process, the parts are removed and polished to a glossy smooth finish to insure an even result. The plating is about the thickness of paper.
Oh those French with their ‘ordinary’ naked lady telephone receivers! Oh la la.
As a side note, these phones proved to be a liability to home owners as home raids were undertaken just to steal the $500 phone ($1,467,023.00 in today’s money). Insurance companies insisted home owners lock them in the home’s safe, rendering them useless.
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