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On This Day in Telephone History October 27TH 1874 Alexander Graham Bell took out First Papers for Citizenship in the United States. He was admitted to citizenship on second papers, November 10TH, 1882.
On This Day in Telephone History October 26TH 1960 AT&T Announced Plans For Deep-sea Cable in the Caribbean. 322 miles between Puerto Rico and Antigua, via islands of Tortola, Dog and St. Kitts.
On This Day in Telephone History October 25TH 1945 Telephone Service Opened from the Untied States to New Zealand. Western Electric and Bell Labs made technological innovations, most importantly in radar, for the military during World War II from 1942 to 1945. The experience gave AT&T a huge lead when microwave radio relay became the … Read more
On This Day in Telephone History October 24TH 1952, Alaska Landline went into service between Anchorage and TOK Junction on the Alaska Highway. Western Electric Long Lines and Bell Telephone Laboratories cooperated to build this line for the Army Signal Corps.
On This Day in Telephone History October 23RD 1971 ATT Announced Data Under Voice (DUV), a technological development which permitted data signals to “hitchhike” on existing microwave radio systems by using the lower end of the frequency band not normally used by voice channels.
On This Day in Telephone History October 22ND 1954 Dictation Recording Trunks for PBX‘s offered after Satisfactory Trials
On This Day in Telephone History October 21ST 1915 First Transatlantic Radiotelephone Transmission “and now, Shreeve, good night”. The first trans-Atlantic radiotelephone transmission was accomplished when H. R. Shreeve, at the Eiffel Tower, in Paris, heard the words “… and now, Shreeve, good night” addressed to him by B. B. Webb, through the transmitting station … Read more
On This Day in Telephone History October 20TH 1906 The First Vacuum Tube Amplifier was announced. Dr. Lee De Forest announced at an American Institute of Electrical Engineers meeting his ‘Audion’ – first of the vacuum tubes as we know them today. De Forest was granted U.S. Patent 841,386 for his early two-electrode version of … Read more
On This Day in Telephone History October 19TH 1883 New England Telephone and Telegraph Company was Incorporated
On This Day in Telephone History October 18TH 1892 – New York–Chicago long distance line opened using 950 miles of copper wire. This was an overhead wire line of heavy gauge copper (two No.8 gauge conductors). Alexander Graham Bell took part in the opening ceremony in New York at the main AT&T office at 18 … Read more