Peninsula art scene: Give Me a Ring: A Telephone Retrospective Exhibition Tours at San Francisco Airport Museum

Give Me a Ring: A Telephone Retrospective Exhibition Tours at San Francisco Airport Museum. In the era of cellphones, it seems difficult to imagine how revolutionary telephone technology was for its time. Landline telephones work by converting a caller’s voice into electrical signals that travel through wires to another telephone, which then converts the signals back into sound waves. Early types ranged from large wooden wall telephones to candlestick desk sets. The rotary dial telephone, with a handset resting on its base, permeated American homes by the 1930s. Give Me a Ring at the San Francisco Airport Museum features an array of classic telephones from the late 19th century to the 1990s—from streamlined art deco telephones, pay phones and novel picturephones of the 1960s to a 1958 touch-tone telephone prototype.

Exhibition tours are now available with reservations required. Meet at the Aviation Museum and Library International Terminal, Departures, Level 3, pre-security. As the exhibition is located post-security in Terminal 2, this is an opportunity to see the exhibition without a flight ticket. Visitors will be required to fill out a form, bring their REAL ID or passport, and abide by TSA rules. RSVP on Eventbrite for your spot on an upcoming tour. Free parking is offered by bringing your parking ticket to the Aviation Museum and Library. For information visit sfomuseum.org/exhibitions/telephone-retrospective and https://www.eventbrite.com/e/exhibition-tour-of-give-me-a-ring-a-telephone-retrospective-tickets-1981067555387?aff=oddtdtcreator