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This episode is sponsored by Claude. For problems worth solving, get started with Claude at Claude.ai. The Western Electric 500 Series Telephone used to be everywhere. For over 50 years, it was the default telephone for homes, offices and literally anywhere else you might need a phone… but how did that happen? Why was this one phone so much better than everything that came before… or, in some ways, since? Former MythBuster Adam Savage joins Roman Mars to explore the history of the 500 Series Telephone and what we lost when we eventually decided to leave it behind. A...
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Picture, you know, the classic picture of a telephone in the encyclopedia, this black
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This phone was the Western Electric 500 series, and it was kind of just an ordinary telephone.
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B2 · 中高级
能看懂电视新闻就会觉得轻松
- 87% 的单词在 B1 或更简单的水平。
- 每分钟 161 词：自然语速，偏快。
- 整集共有 183 个较难的单词（B2 及以上）。
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It's the 1970s and we're in the peaceful bliss of suburbia, in a family home, pretty indistinguishable from any other family home. But for one curious child, it was in these four walls that there lived a precious, almost mythical object. It was in the front foyer of our house. There was a table devoted to it.
This is Adam Savage. I am a former MythBuster, current YouTuber, science communicator, and maker of things. And breaker of things. And breaker of things. You have to break enough things to learn how they go back together.
But one of the few things Adam was never quite able to break was what sat on that table in the front foyer of his home. Picture, you know, the classic picture of a telephone in the encyclopedia, this black phone with a metal dial, letters in each hole of the dial, and a handset sitting on top. This phone was the Western Electric 500 series, and it was kind of just an ordinary telephone.
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