Telephone instruments in use in Singapore between 1910 and 1916.
An operator using a manual telephone switchboard – part of a system first introduced to Singapore in 1879.
In 1879, Singapore conducted its first telephone trial using a telegraph line between Raffles Square and Tanjong Pagar, just three years after Alexander Graham Bell patented the invention.
Trunk call operators at work in 1937, the year Singapore’s telephone service went international. On Dec 1, the first overseas call was successfully connected between London and Singapore.
