LINK: John E. Karlin, Designer of the 20th Century Telephone, Dies at 94

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John E. Karlin, Designer of the 20th Century Telephone, Dies at 94 (http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/09/business/john-e-karlin-who-led-the-way-to-all-digit-dialing-dies-at-94.html?ref=obituaries&_r=0&pagewanted=all) He also introduced the white dot inside each finger hole (http://2guystalkingmetsbaseball.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/black-rotary-phone.jpg) that later became a fixture of rotary phones. After the phone was redesigned at midcentury, with the letters and numbers moved outside the finger holes, users, to AT&T?s bewilderment, could ** longer dial as quickly… With blank space at the center of the holes, Mr. Karlin found, callers ** longer had a target at which to aim their fingers. The dot restored the speed.. (via df (http://daringfireball.net))

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