Before touch tone button phones people had to use rotary phones to dial a number (and before that they used a telephone operator).
Place your finger in the hole that shows the number you want to dial and rotate the dial clockwise until your finger reaches the finger stop and let go. Repeat this process for each digit. Sometimes a pencil is used to dial instead of fingers so as not to break long fingernails.
For a 1, you can quickly tap the hang-up posts, or repeat at the correct speed for higher numbers. The manual dexterity needed to accurately tap out anything above a three or four is rare.
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