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The Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association (a.k.a. the Association of the Mechanics of Boston) awarded two gold medals to Bell, as exhibitor #626 registered to the New England Telephone Company of Boston, MA, for both the telephone and Visible Speech, twinning the results of the Centennial Exposition held in Philadelphia two years ...
NYNEX Corporation / ˈ n aɪ n ɛ k s / was an American telephone company that served five states of New England (Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont) as well as most of the state of New York from January 1, 1984 to August 14, 1997.
A Bell System logo (called the Blue Bell) used from 1889 to 1900 [citation needed] AT&T's lines and metallic circuit connections. March 1, 1891. The formation of the Bell Telephone Company superseded an agreement between Alexander Graham Bell and his financiers, principal among them Gardiner Greene Hubbard and Thomas Sanders.
By 1881, Bell Telephone Company had become the American Bell Telephone Company. [22] One of its subsidiaries was the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T), established in 1885. [ 23 ] On December 30, 1899, AT&T acquired the assets of its parent American Bell Telephone, becoming the new parent company. [ 24 ]
United States v. AT&T, 552 F.Supp. 131 (1982), was a ruling of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, [1] that led to the 1984 Bell System divestiture, and the breakup of the old AT&T natural monopoly into seven regional Bell operating companies and a much smaller new version of AT&T.
Logo used by the Bell Telephone Company of Canada from 1902 to 1922. The Bell Telephone Company of Canada Ltd. was created by an act of Parliament on April 29, 1880. [7] Later known as Bell Canada, its charter granted it the right to construct telephone lines alongside all public rights-of-way in Canada.
Throughout New Orleans' history, until the early 20th century when medical and scientific advances ameliorated the situation, the city suffered repeated epidemics of yellow fever and other tropical and infectious diseases. [70] In the first half of the 19th century, yellow fever epidemics killed over 150,000 people in New Orleans. [71]
Starting in 1977, ITT set out to develop an ambitious new Digital Telephone Exchange, System 1240 (later System 12), [33] [34] which reportedly cost US$1 billion. [35] According to Fortune in 1985, Araskog directed the company's efforts towards a relentless pursuit of developing and promoting System 12, while channeling profits from successful ...