In an 1899 switch, this subsidiary of Bell Telephone became Bell's parent company
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Bell Telephone Company - Wikipedia  The Bell Telephone Company, a common law joint stock company, was organized in Boston, .... Alexander Graham Bell's ten shares of Bell Telephone Company stock were later converted into a single .... With this assets transfer on December 30, 1899, AT&T became the parent of both American Bell and the Bell System.
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Bell System History - The Bell System - Beatrice Companies, Inc. | "a ...  The Bell System, a.k.a. Ma Bell or simply THE telephone company, was not a "company" ... the 22 local Bell operating companies (which became the so-called "Baby Bells) made ..... the first president of American Telephone and Telegraph, the long lines subsidiary. ... (By this time, AT&T had become the parent company.).
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History of AT&T - Wikipedia  The history of AT&T dates back to the invention of the telephone itself. The Bell Telephone Company was established in 1879 by Alexander ... Renamed the National Bell Telephone Company in March 1879, it became the American Bell Telephone ... With this transfer of assets, AT&T became the parent of the Bell System.
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Bell System - Wikipedia  The Bell System was the system of companies, led by the Bell Telephone Company and ... In 1899, American Telephone & Telegraph (AT&T) acquired the assets of its parent, ... AT&T became the parent of American Bell, and thus the head of the Bell ... were made by Western Electric, a wholly owned subsidiary of AT&T Co.
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History of Ohio Bell Telephone Company  FundingUniverse  Ohio Bell Telephone Company, as a part of the Ameritech Corporation, provides ... the organization formed to oversee and market Alexander Graham Bell's technology. ... So, Bell Telephone had its AT&T subsidiary (incorporated in New York ... became the parent company of the Bell System in 1899, and the Cleveland...
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Photophone - Wikipedia  The photophone is a telecommunications device that allowed for the transmission of speech on a beam of light. It was invented jointly by Alexander Graham Bell and his assistant Charles ... For the sound-on-film technology, see RCA Photophone. ... On June 3, 1880, Bell's assistant transmitted a wireless voice telephone...
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Union Pacific Corp. Subsidiaries - UtahRails.net  Jun 17, 2015 ... One source shows that Champlain Oil & Refining Company became ... Union Pacific Corporation (parent company of Union Pacific Railroad) and Eastern Gas and ... into a single operating company called the Union Pacific Resources .... The GPM Business was also commonly referred to as UP Fuels, and...
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Telephones - Engineering and Technology History Wiki  Jan 9, 2015 ... These early telephones used the same electromagnetic instrument .... One notable combined handset telephone, introduced by Ericsson ... included additional components designed to decrease sidetone and .... The numbers, which had been under the finger hole in earlier dials, .... Old-Time Telephones!
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Jan. 25, 1915 - The Learning Network - The New York Times  Jan 25, 2012 ... More New York City Schools Join Diversity Initiative ... Bell, in New York at the time, made the first call to Thomas Watson, his ... it to the public until January 1915, ahead of San Francisco's Panama-Pacific ... as the inventor of the telephone in large part because he was the first to receive a patent for it.
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Dr. Bell, Inventor of Telephone, Dies - The New York Times  SYDNEY, N. S., Aug. 2.--Dr. Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone, died at 2 o'clock this morning at Beinn Breagh, his estate near Baddeck. Although...
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Nokia: the rise and fall of a mobile phone giant | Technology | The ...  Sep 3, 2013 ... Nokia: the rise and fall of a mobile phone giant ... 1865: Mining engineer Fredrik Idestam sets up a wood pulp mill at the ... That same year, the Nokia DX200, the company's first digital telephone switch, goes into operation.
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AT&T - Wikipedia  AT&T Inc. is an American multinational telecommunications conglomerate, headquartered at .... Although the current AT&T as a corporate structure has only existed since 1983, the company has adopted the original AT&T's history as its own. ..... Slator was also hit with a $100 million discrimination lawsuit, filed by...
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u.s. settles phone suit, drops i.b.m. case; a.t.& t. to split up ...  Published: January 9, 1982 ... The heart of the agreement requires A.T.& T. to give up all its wholly owned ... all rapidly growing and a profitable aspect of the telecommunications industry. ... In divesting itself of local telephone subsidiaries, it would be ... a separate subsidiary - sometimes dubbed Baby Bell -that could not be...
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From the Fall of the Bell System to the Telecommunications Act ...  Jan 1, 1999 ... event in telecommunications law since January 1, 1984: on that date, ... demise of the vertically integrated telecommunications giant also ... landmark event.5 Neither the break-up of the Bell System in the early .... negative effect on the economy, but rather whether Judge Greene's administration of the.
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Verizon Communications - Wikipedia  Verizon Communications, Inc. ( About this sound listen (helpinfo)) (/vrazn/ v-RY-zn) ... Bell Atlantic, the surviving company, changed its name to "Verizon", ... One, SBC Communications, bought out its former parent AT&T Corporation ..... a Verizon network tester who travels the country asking "Can you hear me now?
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Bell Telephone Company - Wikipedia  Approximate one-third interests were at first held by Gardiner Greene Hubbard, a lawyer and Bell's future father-in-law; Thomas Sanders, the well-to-do leather...
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THE SECOND BREAKUP OF AT&T - THE REORGANIZATION ...  Sep 21, 1995 ... More than a decade after breaking up the Bell System to settle a Federal ... AT&T said it would divide its business into three companies: communications services, ... still to be named, will take over AT&T's giant business in the making ... In 1982, AT&T agreed to divest itself of its local telephone system by...
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Bell Telephone Company | Biography | People | Collection of ...  Gardiner Greene Hubbard (trustee and president): 1,397 shares, along with ... Thomas Sanders (financier and treasurer): 1,497 shares; Thomas Watson (head ... Alexander Graham Bell's ten shares of Bell Telephone Company stock were later .... Watson, Thomas Augustus, Bell's assistant; Western Electric, co-founded by...
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The First Telephone Call, March 10, 1876 - America's Story from ...  They were spoken by Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone, when he made the first call on March 10, 1876, to his assistant, Thomas Watson: "Mr. Watson--come here--I want to see you."
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Bell System Memorial- The End of AT&T  The companystill a telecom giant but more focused on the corporate .... "After its forced breakup in 1984," The Wall Street Journal's Rhoads wrote, "it was .... "Breaking Up Is Hard To Do!" .... January 1, 1984 - Bell System no longer exists.
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Why is the 1982 AT&T breakup considered one of the most ...  Brought into existence on January 1, 1984, the Baby Bells were some of the most ... and their businesses were established and producing cash from day one. AT&T ... In 2005, one of the Baby Bells bought out Ma Bell, renaming itself AT&T and ... to settle the Justice Department's anti-trust action by breaking itself into seven...