Re: No smoke without a burning mast
Dial phones were all rented. You didn’t own it and they didn’t steal it.
But.. old rortary phones created one of the first conspiracies-
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trimphone
The luminous dial or betalight contained the mildly radioactive element tritium*, which later caused some concern about safety. In June 1991 the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority at Harwell was fined £3,000 by Wantage Magistrates Court for accumulating radioactive waste, having collected several thousand Trimphone luminous dials in a skip
The good'ol nuclear phone. One of those strange things that may end up inhabiting any future waste repository and doom us all. Or not. I did my first dialing with a Trimphone and have since been complemented on the ability of my bifurcated finger tips to do detail work.
*Shame about the cost, otherwise it'd still be a fine form of low energy lighting. And winding up Greens.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
