On This Day in Telephone History November 2ND 1911 Organization meeting of the Telephone Pioneers of America was held at Hotel Somerset, Boston, Mass. as a result of the suggestion and active efforts of Henry W. Pope, who at one time was traffic manager for the Southern Bell, and later on undertook special assignments for the AT&T Company. Alexander Graham Bell and 246 members were present at this first meeting.

On This Day in Telephone History November 2ND 1911

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On This Day in Telephone History November 2ND 1911 Organization meeting of the Telephone Pioneers of America was held at Hotel Somerset, Boston, Mass. as a result of the suggestion and active efforts of Henry W. Pope, who at one time was traffic manager for the Southern Bell, and later on undertook special assignments for the AT&T Company. Alexander Graham Bell and 246 members were present at this first meeting.

“Boston is par excellence the home of the telephone, for it was here that all the apparatus was made and where the important experiments went on” – Alexander Graham Bell on November 2ND 1911