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The Bell System was a system of telecommunication companies, led by the Bell Telephone Company and later by the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T), that dominated the telephone services industry in North America for over 100 years from its creation in 1877 until its antitrust breakup in 1983.
Mar 16, 2015 · There were 5.8 million telephones in the Bell/AT&T network in 1910, when this map was published. It shows the uneven development of early telephone service in the United States, and gives...
- Rebecca Onion
A rare 1910 thematic map of AT&T’s Bell Telephone System, produced at a time when “Ma Bell” had a near-stranglehold on the nation’s long-distance and local phone service. The map depicts the United States, southern Canada, and northern Mexico, including state and provincial boundaries and the courses of major river systems.
Shows the United States and Canada with "Long Distance lines of the American Tel. & Tel. Co. and Lines of the other Bell Telephone Companies and their connections." The long distance lines are primarily in the eastern half of the country, with one line running as far west as Denver.
Bell System, a former American telephone system, governed by American Telephone & Telegraph Company (now AT&T Corporation; q.v.) and including Western Electric Company (q.v.), the system’s manufacturer; Bell Laboratories (q.v.), the research and development facility; and other departments
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Bell System was known for providing the highest-quality telephone parts in the United States, but that ended in 1984. The telephone components were then manufactured by foreign companies for Western Electric , a leading telephone company.
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To help us understand the process of uniting the states, we built the first digital map of a telegraph system. We invite you to use the map to see for yourself how modern technology helped build a transcontinental nation.
