First push button telephone introduced

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18 November, 1963

Bell Telephone introduced the world’s first push button telephone on 18th November 1963 to customers in some parts of Pennsylvania. The Western Electric 1500 device had only 10 buttons and was replaced in 1968 by the 12-button model (with the inclusion of the * and # keys).