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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.
On This Day in Telephone History December 29TH 1874 Elisha Gray demonstrates his musical tones device, a.k.a. Electro-Harmonic Telegraph, and transmits “familiar melodies through telegraph wire” at the Presbyterian Church in Highland Park, Illinois.
On This Day in Telephone History December 28TH 1871 Antonio Meucci Submitted his Caveat for the Telephone. Antonio Meucci was unable to raise sufficient funds to pay his way through the patent application process. Thus, had to settle for a caveat which at the time was a one-year renewable notice of an impending patent, first … Read more
On This Day in Telephone History December 27TH 1932 John Joseph Carty Passed Away
On This Day in Telephone History December 26TH, 1906 The Butler County Telephone Company of Butler County, PA was incorporated. Its Charter provides for the construction of a telephone line from the central office at Eau Claire, PA to Parker, PA and in the counties of Armstrong, Butler, Crawford, Clarion, Mercer, Lawrence and Beaver.
On This Day in Telephone History December 25TH 1900 Switchboard Lamps First to Light Christmas Tree. William Rivenburg, a 17-year-old technician at a telephone exchange in Greenfield, Iowa, wired telephone switchboard lamps to his Christmas Tree. Candles were being used at the time, but they were causing fires.
On This Day in Telephone History On Christmas Day, December 25TH 1900 The First International Telephone Call Over telegraph cable from Key West, Florida to Havana, Cuba, from his office, John W. Atkins the manager at International Ocean Telegraph Company (a subsidiary of Western Union Telegraph Company), made the historic telephone call over telegraph cable … Read more
On This Day in Telephone History December 24TH 1919 The First Rotary Dial Telephones in the Bell System installed in Norfolk, Virginia.
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