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Nov 9, 2009 · Alexander Graham Bell is known for his many inventions, especially the telephone and a metal detector. He later created the Bell Telephone Company, now AT&T.
The Bell Telephone Company was created in 1877, and by 1886, more than 150,000 people in the U.S. owned telephones. Bell Company engineers made numerous other improvements to the telephone, which emerged as one of the most successful products ever. In 1879, the Bell company acquired Edison's patents for the carbon microphone from Western Union ...
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- United Kingdom (1847–1922), British-subject in Canada (1870–1882), United States (1882–1922)
Bell system telephones and related equipment were made by Western Electric, a wholly owned subsidiary of AT&T Co. Member telephone companies paid a fixed fraction of their revenues as a license fee to Bell Labs.
- 1877; 146 years ago
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May 21, 2021 · Transcontinental service began in 1915. Bell founded his Bell Telephone Company in 1877. As the industry rapidly expanded, Bell quickly bought out competitors. After a series of mergers, the American Telephone and Telegraph Co.—the forerunner of today's AT&T—was incorporated in 1880.
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Oct 19, 2018 · Alexander Graham Bell demonstrated the telephone to Queen Victoria in 1878, and in 1878 the Telephone Company Ltd was formed to market Bell's phones in Britain. In 1880 the first phone book was published, and an important court judgment granted the Post Office monopoly on telephone services.
Apr 19, 2024 · Alexander Graham Bell (born March 3, 1847, Edinburgh, Scotland—died August 2, 1922, Beinn Bhreagh, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada) was a Scottish-born American inventor, scientist, and teacher of the deaf whose foremost accomplishments were the invention of the telephone (1876) and the refinement of the phonograph (1886).
Apr 3, 2014 · Alexander Graham Bell was a Scottish-born scientist and inventor best known for inventing the first working telephone in 1876 and founding the Bell Telephone Company in 1877. Bell’s success...
