Retro Tech Tuesday: Voice Powered Phone

For today's retro tech, we go back to a time before cell phones. A time before cordless phones. And apparently, a time before you could simply yell to someone else.

This Voice Powered telephone comes from The Practical Handyman's Encyclopedia. Essentially, using the magnets from two phones, you could connect two "handsets" (the magnetics connected to a drawer handle) with wire for communication up to "thousands of feet."

Someday, we might just head out to the TDL garage and try to whip these up, as there's a lot of skepticism as to the length of acceptable communication, especially since the example cited in the book is to use the telephone as a way to communicate with someone adjusting your TV aerial (antenna, for the younger folk. Something you used to need to get TV for the even younger folk).

It seems like it would be easier to just yell to them when the picture looks good, but where's the fun in that!?