On this day in telephone history June 12TH 1900
On this day in Telephone History June 12TH 1900 the Kinloch Long Distance Telephone Company of St. Louis, MO. was organized.
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On This Day in Telephone History June 11TH 2002
On This Day in Telephone History June 11TH 2002 The United States House of Representatives passed a resolution honoring Italian immigrant Antonio Meucci for his contributions and work developing the design of a talking telegraph or telephone in 1849.
On This Day in Telephone History June 10TH
On This Day in Telephone History June 10TH 1936 First Bell System coaxial cable put in service for television use. 1.5 miles long from NBC studio to transmitter on the Empire State Building, New York City.
On This Day in Telephone History June 9TH 1941
On This Day in Telephone History June 9TH 1941 the first two-pair coaxial conductor telephone cable was put into commercial service. It was the first in a series of carrier systems called the L-carrier system. The 195 mile coaxial cable was installed between Stevens Point, WI and Minneapolis, MN.
On This Day in Telephone History June 8TH 1877
On This Day in Telephone History June 8TH 1877 J. Emery, Jr., of Charlestown, MA signed the first telephone lease. Emery was also the first to pay his Telephone service rental bill. $20 for 2 telephones for 1 year.
On This Day in Telephone History June 7TH 1951
On This Day in Telephone History June 7TH 1951 AT&T and IT&T signed a cross-licensing patent agreement. Western Electric Telephone parts became completely interchangeable with IT&T Telephone parts.
On This Day in Telephone History June 6TH 2013
On This Day in Telephone History June 6TH 2013, Americans were informed they had lost their privacy and fourth amendment protections to terrorism. Verizon had been providing virtually all communications traffic data, known as Pen Register/Trap Trace Data, from its Verizon business unit to the National Security Agency. This was pursuant to a top secret court … Read more
On This Day in Telephone History June 5TH 1946
On This Day in Telephone History June 5TH 1946 Telephone switchboard operator Julia Curran Berry becomes Heroine of the La Salle Hotel Fire. Forty-four year old widow Julia Curran Berry was the nighttime telephone switchboard operator at the La Salle Hotel when fire broke out. It spread quickly through the hotel’s highly-varnished paneling, traveled up … Read more
On This Day in Telephone History June 4TH 1877
On This Day in Telephone History June 4TH 1877 Emile Berliner files telephone patent application that includes a Carbon Microphone Transmitter
On This Day in Telephone History June 3RD 1880
On This Day in Telephone History June 3RD 1880 Alexander Graham Bell transmitted the first wireless telephone message using Photophone apparatus from the top of the Franklin School in Franklin Square at 13th and K Streets in Washington, DC. The signal was sent to 1325 L Street.