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1878: First phone directory printed in Connecticut. Telegraph manager George Coy of New Haven, Connecticut, developed an exchange—the system that allows people to call each other—within a year ...
The First Telephone Exchange was a historic site located in New Haven, Connecticut, notable for being the site of the world's first commercial telephone exchange. The exchange was established by George W. Coy, proprietor of the District Telephone Company of New Haven, in 1878. Coy had built the world's first commercial telephone switchboard ...
The first telephone directory, printed in New Haven, Connecticut, United States, in November 1878. Telephone directories are a type of city directory. Books listing the inhabitants of an entire city were widely published starting in the 18th century, before the invention of the telephone.
The District Telephone Company of New Haven went into operation with only twenty-one subscribers, who paid $1.50 per month. By 21 February 1878, however, when the first telephone directory was published by the company, fifty subscribers were listed.
Coy in the Bell Telephone Magazine. George Willard Coy (November 13, 1836 – January 15 or 23, 1915) was an American mechanic, inventor and entrepreneur. He ran the first commercial telephone exchange in 1878 and was involved in the production of the first telephone directory.
It started operations on January 28, 1878, as the District Telephone Company of New Haven. [1] It was the founder of the first telephone exchange, as well as the world's first telephone book. Since its inception, SNET has held a monopoly on most of the telephone services in the state of Connecticut; the only remaining exceptions are the ...
The first Queens telephone directory was issued 1878, by Bell Telephone Company of New York. It was printed on cardboard and could fit in a vest pocket. It was printed on cardboard and could fit in a vest pocket.
4 February 1878: Edison demonstrates the telephone between Menlo Park, New Jersey and Philadelphia. 14 June 1878: The Telephone Company (Bell's Patents) Ltd. is registered in London. Opened in London on 21 August 1879, it is Europe's first telephone exchange, followed a couple of weeks later by one in Manchester. [14]