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In 1984, each regional Bell operating company was assigned a set list of names it was allowed to use in combination with the Bell marks. By 2022, all these Bell System names had disappeared from the United States business landscape.
Mar 16, 2015 · A Telephone Map of the United States Shows Where You Could Call Using Ma Bell in 1910
- Rebecca Onion
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.
Map showing long distance telephone lines and metallic circuit connections, by the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, 1890, from the Digital Commonwealth - 1 commonwealth 5999qk46q.tif 6,028 × 4,769; 82.27 MB
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.
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.
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The Bell System included Western Electric (manufacturing), Bell Laboratories (research and development), AT&T Long Lines and the regional Bell operating companies. The American telephone monopoly provided what was by all accounts the best telephone service in the world.
