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On This Day in Telephone History January 8TH 1962 Mediphone, a drug information center, opened in Washington, D. C. The center was capable of supplying detailed data on more than 8,000 drugs to doctors throughout the country by telephone. Data is arranged in manageable form with techniques and equipment supplied by Remington Rand, IBM, and … Read more
On This Day in Telephone History January 7TH 1927 New York-London Telephone Service opened. First Transatlantic Service opened at 8:30AM EST. Big list waiting eagerly.
On This Day in Telephone History On January 6TH 1927, one day prior to the “official” ceremonial opening of AT&T’s commercial transatlantic telephone service between New York and London, a transatlantic “test” call was made and recorded. The call originated at the Bell Telephone Building’s 26TH floor in NYC at 9:35AM EST (2:35PM GMT). The … Read more
On This Day in Telephone History January 5TH 1914 Northern Electric Company, Ltd., of Canada, was incorporated through merger of Imperial Wire and Cable and Northern Electric & Manufacturing Company, Ltd. Northern Electric was the manufacturing branch of the Bell System in Canada.
On This Day in Telephone History January 4TH 1923 The first simultaneous broadcasting by wire-connected radio stations happened. The first chain, or network broadcast, linked WEAF in New York, and WNAC in Boston. The broadcast was part of the program at the annual dinner of the Massachusetts Bankers’ Association, at the Copley Plaza Hotel, Boston.
On This Day in Telephone History January 3RD 1963 Bell Laboratories engineers succeeded in getting the transmitter and receiver of Telstar® 1 to operate on command from the ground. The command circuit had stopped working on November 23,1962. On February 21, 1963, radiation knocked the satellite out permanently.
On This Day in Telephone History January 2ND 1888 the First Private Line Telephone Service between Boston and New York, interchanged over Morse telegraph lines, was used by the press. The private line contract was between the Boston Globe in Boston and AT&T in New York City.
On This Day in Telephone History January 1ST 1935, AT&T offered private line channel network for extensive photo transmission (telephotograph) to the Associated Press. This established the first transcontinental telephotograph network. The first AP photo sent by wire depicted the crash of a small plane in New York State’s Adirondack Mountains.
On This Day in Telephone History December 31ST 1983 the Bell System was Divided into Independent Companies by the U.S. Justice Department The Bell System was the system of companies led by AT&T. AT&T (originally The Bell Telephone Company) provided telephone services to much of the United States and Canada from 1877 to 1984. Becoming … Read more
On This Day in Telephone History December 30TH 1899 To bypass state regulations limiting capitalization, American Telephone and Telegraph (AT&T) purchased its parent, the American Bell Telephone Company, and assumed leadership role of the Bell System.