Re: Why -48V for telephone lines, and not positive?

From: Winfield Hill (hill_a_at_t_rowland-dotties-harvard-dot.s-edu)
Date: 11/30/04 

Date: 30 Nov 2004 14:35:12 -0800

JeffM wrote...
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>> when this stuff was invented
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> Yup. Stroger Switches were invented in 1884--by an undertaker.

 Do you think they used -48V back then? 

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