Crosley 1892 Eiffel Tower Replica Telephone

Crosley 1892 Eiffel Tower Telephone Replica

This is a realistic replica of the 1892 Ericsson Eiffel Tower phone.

Features push button dialing to ensure compatibility with most phone systems.

If you don't have regular landline phone service, we provide an option to use this phone as an extension of your cell phone. The XLink Bluetooth gateway will allow you to make and receive calls using a vintage rotary dial phone through a Bluetooth connection to your cell phone. Note - the XLink supports both pulse and tone dialing.

Lars Magnus Ericsson personally designed one of the world's most original and now most coveted standard telephones. It is a desk telephone in the form of a naked steel construction, with two black-lacquered inductor magnets, ingeniously curved and twisted into a stand. The skeleton-like construction with the double curvature magnet steel was tested as early as 1884 on the model Ebh (AC100). The microphone was fitted in an elegantly angled arm that could be pivoted 360 degrees.

The breakthrough for the model, however, came in 1892 when it was equipped with a horizontal telephone handset on a hook. Although the handset was not a Swedish invention, Ericsson quickly became the handset's leading color-bearer, and the model from 1892 set the standard for all 20th-century variants of desk telephones with horizontal headsets. From a design standpoint, it can be considered as the inspiration for all landline telephones.

This style of telephone remained in production until the 1930s, with reproductions being produced into the 2000s.