cleanup reorganize date November 2010 The Federal TelegraphCompany was a United States communications company that played a pivotal role in the 20th century in the development of radio communications. Founded in Palo Alto, California in 1909, it would eventually merge in August 1927 with the John William Mackay Mackay Companies . It remained a separate entity within the Mackay Companies, however, and when International Telephone and Telegraph purchased the Mackay Companies in 1928 Federal remained a component of the Mackay structure as a manufacturing entity. In 1940, Sosthenes Behn moved Federal Telegraph under International Telephone and Telegraph directly so that its manufacturing capabilities could help ITT replace those in Europe that had been shut down because of the war and the Fall of France. ref Robert Sobel , ITT The Management of Opportunity Beard Books, 2000 , pp. 102 104. ref References references Category Telegraph companies of the United States ... more details
File Universal Private TelegraphCompany stamps block 1864.jpg right thumb 1864 telegraph stamp s of the company used for paying telegraph fees. The Universal Private TelegraphCompany, Limited was formed in 1861 ref The company s technology had already been in use since 1860 but the company was not statutorily incorporated until 1861. ref to exploit Professor Charles Wheatstone s 1858 Universal Telegraph . The company was to ...carry out a system by which banks, merchants, public bodies and other parties may have the means of establishing a telegraph for their own private purposes from their houses to their offices, manufactories or other places . ref name dist1 http distantwriting.co.uk privatetelegraphy.html The Universal Telegraph Lost Future of Telegraphy by Steven Roberts. distantwriting.co.uk 2011. Retrieved 1 September 2011. http www.webcitation.org 61goL0dnD Archived here. ref The company s first directors were Charles Wheatstone and William Fairbairn , CE, the Manchester ironmaster. It employed Thomas Page, engineer, Lewis Hertslet, secretary and Nathaniel Holmes, electrician. ref name dist1 Archives As a nationalised company, the firm s records are now in the BT Archives British Telecom Archives . Stamps The company issued a number of stamps which are of interest to Philatelist philatelists and are still some of the most common British telegraph stamp s found. It is unclear, however, whether the stamps were ever used as only unused copies are known. The stamps carried the year in the corners. ref Steve Hiscocks Hiscocks, Steve . Telegraph & Telephone Stamps of the World A priced and annotated catalogue . Woking S.E.R. Hiscocks, 1982, pp. 138 139. ISBN 0 9508301 0 0 ref See also List of historical British telcos References Reflist commons Telegraphy External links http distantwriting.co.uk Distant Writing telegraph site. Category Telegraph companies of the United Kingdom Category 1860 establishments in the United Kingdom Category Defunct telecommunications ... more details
The Coca Cola Bottling Company of Northern NewEngland is a bottler of Coca Cola , Dr Pepper , and Canada Dry soft drinks in the NewEngland region as well as a small portion of upstate New York . It is the largest independent bottler of Coca Cola in the United States. The Coca Cola Company does not own an interest, as the company is 100 owned by Japan Japan s Kirin Brewery Company, Ltd. , who also own the rights to the Moxie soft drink nationwide. The company is referred to as CCNNE for brevity. History CCNNE was founded in Laconia, New Hampshire in 1977. Today it operates distribution centers in all six NewEngland states, as well as upstate New York. ref cite web url http www.ccnne.com aboutus.html title CCNNE History date accessdate 2011 03 26 ref Products CCNNE bottles and or distributes products from The Coca Cola Company, Dr Pepper Snapple Group, Nestl , and Campbell s. ref cite web url http companydatabase.org c bottled canned soft drinks carbonated waters bottlers water ice distributes coca cola pepper snapple group new york newengland coca cola bottling company of northern newengland inc.html title CCNNE Company Database Profile date accessdate 2011 03 26 ref Notes reflist colwidth 30em External links http ccnne.com Official website Category Coca Cola bottlers drink company stub ... more details
between them, ref California State TelegraphCompany v. Alta TelegraphCompany, 22 Cal 398 1863 ref the Alta TelegraphCompany and the California State TelegraphCompany. The Overland TelegraphCompany of California was thus formed with Horace W. Carpentier of the California State TelegraphCompany ..., the Pacific TelegraphCompany began building west from Omaha, Nebraska . http www.telegraph history.org transcontinental telegraph index.html Upon their connection in Salt Lake City, Utah ... history of Omaha, Nebraska Category Telegraph companies of the United States telecom company ... was made. The First Transcontinental Telegraph led to the immediate demise of the Pony Express . The Pacific TelegraphCompany of Nebraska and the Overland TelegraphCompany of California were eventually absorbed into the Western Union TelegraphCompany. References references External links http www.telegraph history.org transcontinental telegraph index.html Contemporary account of the construction of the transcontinental telegraph http www.ieeeghn.org wiki index.php Milestones Transcontinental Telegraph 2C 1861 History of the first transcontinental telegraph http cprr.org Museum Pacific Telegraph Act 1860.html Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum Pacific Telegraph Act of 1860 ... more details
of United Wireless. The United Wireless TelegraphCompany was the largest radio communications company ... Wireless TelegraphCompany. United s head office was located at the old American DeForest headquarters at 42 Broadway, in New York City, and the company continued publication of the house organ The Aerogram ... based Marconi s Wireless TelegraphCompany, Limited. The information about American DeForest was true, as United leased the older company s assets for 1, a maneuver that, not coincidentally, blocked ... company under his control was quickly and effectively repulsed. Missing from the newcompany ... 1907. Wilson takeover The newcompany had a tumultuous start. In addition to the Marconi rebuff, in February, 1907, just two months after its founding, control of the company was quietly obtained by a group ... investors by the introduction of the telegraph and telephone. In addition, United Wireless promotional ... in 1912 were the Radio TelephoneCompany and the Continental Wireless Company . Not all the reviews ... TelegraphCompany, had gone determinedly ahead developing United along sane and businesslike lines ... in the Radio Industry , The MacMillan Company, New York, 1949. External links Fayant, Frank, http ... by Guglielmo Marconi Marconi interests in mid 1912. Although at the time of its demise the company ..., 1906 by its founder and first president, notorious stock promoter Abraham White. Legally, the company was the reorganization of the Amalgamated Wireless Securities Company, which had been organized ... of company management. However, an alternate explanation is that he was no longer welcome, due to his ... legal judgments over the company s appropriation. Moreover, General H. H. C. Dunwoody, an American ... of the International Loan & Banking Company of Denver, Colorado. Wilson, who had previously promoted American DeForest stock, forced White out to become the newcompany president, with Wilson s nephew, W. A. Diboll installed as company treasurer. Business practices In 1907, the radio industry ... more details
The Atlantic and Pacific TelegraphCompany A&P was an American communications company that operated in the 19th century. The Maine Legislature charter ed the company in 1854. The company s stated objective was to build a telegraph system extending from the East Coast of the United States East Coast to the West Coast of the United States West Coast . ref cite news title The Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph Co. author url http query.nytimes.com mem archive free pdf?res 9804E0DB153DE034BC4950DFB566838F649FDE newspaper New York Times date 1854 03 31 ref In 1869 A&P leased telegraph lines from the Union Pacific Railroad UP and the Central Pacific Railroad , in exchange for shares of stock . Subsequently the UP attempted to retake control of the lines in order to lease them to an additional, competing telegraphcompany, the American Union TelegraphCompany. In 1880 the A&P obtained a court injunction to prevent the UP action. ref cite news title The War of the Telegraphs. The Government Preparing to Protect Its Interest Under the Pacific Railroad Acts author url http query.nytimes.com mem archive free pdf?res 9C0CE1DC1F31EE3ABC4D53DFB266838B699FDE newspaper New York Times date 1880 04 05 ref Through several complex transactions, which included patent negotiations with inventor Thomas Edison , financier Jay Gould acquired sufficient shares of A&P stock to obtain control of the company by 1875. ref name Klein cite book title The Life and Legend of Jay Gould last Klein first Maury authorlink coauthors year 1997 publisher John Hopkins University Press location Baltimore isbn 978 0 8018 ... a rate war with competing telegraph companies, most notably Western Union , the largest company ... TelegraphCompany Records, 1820 1995 History. Archives Center, National Museum of American History ... Basic Books location New York isbn 978 0 465 06886 9 page 238 url ref By 1878, Gould had sold ... Defunct telecommunications companies of the United States Category Telegraph companies of the United ... more details
File The Overland Pony Express.jpg right thumb 300px Depiction of the construction of the first Transcontinental Telegraph, with a Pony Express rider passing below. In 1860, the Pacific Telegraph Act of 1860 called for the facilitation of communication between the east and west coasts of the United States of America . Hiram Sibley of the Western Union Telegraph Company won the contract. In 1861, Benjamin Franklin Ficklin joined Hiram Sibley in helping to form the Pacific Telegraph Company of Nebraska . At the same time, Jeptha Wade was asked by Hiram Sibley to consolidate smaller telegraph companies in California . While the Pacific Telegraph Company built west from Omaha, Nebraska , the Overland Telegraph Company of California was thus formed and built east from Carson City, Nevada . With their connection in Salt Lake City, Utah on October 24, 1861, the final link between the east and west coasts of the United States of America was made by telegraph. The First Transcontinental Telegraph led to the immediate demise of the Pony Express . The Pacific Telegraph Company and Overland Telegraph Company of California were eventually absorbed into the Western Union Telegraph Company. References and sources http cprr.org Museum Pacific Telegraph Act 1860.html Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum Pacific Telegraph Act of 1860 http www.telegraph history.org transcontinental telegraph index.html Contemporary account of the construction of the transcontinental telegraph http www.ieeeghn.org wiki index.php Milestones Transcontinental Telegraph, 1861 History of the first transcontinental telegraph Category History of telecommunications in the United States Category Pioneer history of Omaha, Nebraska Category Telegraph companies of the United States US telecom company stub ... more details
main Transatlantic telegraph cable The Atlantic TelegraphCompany was a company law company formed in 1856 to undertake and exploit a commercial telegraph cable across the Atlantic ocean , the first such telecommunications link. The project stemmed from an agreement between Cyrus West Field Cyrus Field , John Watkins Brett and Charles Tilston Bright and was incorporation business incorporated in December 1856 with GBP 350,000 capital economics capital , raised principally in London , Liverpool , Manchester and Glasgow . The board of directors was composed of eighteen members from the United Kingdom UK , nine from the U.S. and three from Canada . The original three projectors were joined by E.O.W. Whitehouse as chief electrician . Curtis M. Lampson served ably as vice chairman for over a decade. The board recruited mathematician William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin William Thomson later Lord Kelvin , who had publicly disputed some of Whitehouse s claims. The two enjoyed a tense relationship before Whitehouse was dismissed when the first cable failed in 1858. When a second cable, under Thomson s supervision, was proposed, a new subsidiary company, the Enderby s Wharf Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Company , was formed to execute the new venture. On the failure of the expedition to lay the second cable in 1865, a third company was formed to raise the capital for a further attempt, the Anglo American TelegraphCompany. The next expedition in 1866 was a success, also succeeding in recovering the lost second cable. The service generated revenues of 1000 in its first day of operation ... documents Secretariat records two volumes of the Anglo American TelegraphCompany, 1866 1869, are held ... companies of the United Kingdom Category Companies established in 1856 Category Telegraph companies of the United Kingdom bg ru Atlantic TelegraphCompany ... author Standage, T. title The Victorian Internet The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth ... more details
The Erie and Michigan TelegraphCompany was formed by Francis Ormand Jonathan Smith to connect Buffalo, Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago and Milwaukee. Smith was a partner in ownership of the Morse patent. John James Speed, Jr. was assigned to construct lines west of Detroit in 1845. ref James D. Reid, The Telegraph in America , New York, Arno Press, 1974, pp. 268 281 ref . The first portion was constructed by Jeptha Wade in 1847. Speed was named president when the company was organized, and later Ezra Cornell became president. References Reflist Category Telegraphy ... more details
Infobox Companycompany name Telephone Operating Company of Vermont LLC company logo company type Private company Private Subsidiary of Northern NewEnglandTelephone Operations NNETO company slogan foundation 2008 location South Burlington, Vermont South Burlington, VT , USA key people industry Telecommunications num employees products Telephone Local Telephone Service parent Northern NewEnglandTelephone Operations NNETO 2008 present revenue homepage http www.fairpoint.com Telephone Operating Company of Vermont LLC is a telephone operating company owned by Northern NewEnglandTelephone Operations , a subsidiary of FairPoint . The company was created following Verizon s 2008 sale of its telephone lines in Maine , New Hampshire , and Vermont to FairPoint. All of Verizon s assets in those states were grouped into a new holding company to be sold off and merged into FairPoint, Northern NewEngland Spinco . All three states had been served by Verizon NewEngland , formerly NewEnglandTelephone , a Bell Operating Company . The company now operates telephone lines in Vermont formerly operated by Verizon NewEngland . It was sold by Verizon to FairPoint in 2008 . ref http www.fcc.gov wcb armis carrier filing history COSA History fptr.htm FCC COSA History FairPoint Communications ref The company is not connected to FairPoint Vermont , an operating company FairPoint has owned since before acquiring the Verizon assets. See also Verizon NewEngland NYNEX Northern NewEnglandTelephone Operations References Reflist DEFAULTSORT Telephone Operating Company Of Vermont Category Verizon Communications Category FairPoint Category Bell System Category Companies established in 2007 Category Communications in Vermont ... more details
File Electric TelegraphCompany document.JPG right thumb Part of a document showing the company seal. The Electric TelegraphCompany was the world s first public telegraphcompany founded in the United Kingdom in 1846 by Sir William Fothergill Cooke and John Ricardo John Lewis Ricardo , Member of Parliament MP for Stoke upon Trent UK Parliament constituency Stoke on Trent . At creation the company purchased all the patents Cooke and Charles Wheatstone Wheatstone had obtained to date. ref name DW ETC cite web url http distantwriting.co.uk electrictelegraphcompany.html title THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPHCOMPANY ref It merged with the International TelegraphCompany in 1855 to become the Electric and International TelegraphCompany . ref name BTFT cite web url http www.btplc.com Thegroup BTsHistory TheBTfamilytree index.htm title The BT Family Tree ref C.F. Varley was chief engineer in the 1860s. When the British government took over in 1868 the board of directors, apparently, ordered the destruction of all of its historic documents, records and files. ref name DW ETC It was subsequently taken over by the British General Post Office in 1870. ref name BTFT Historical documents Records of the Electric TelegraphCompany 33 volumes , 1846 1872, the International TelegraphCompany 5 volumes , 1852 1858 and the Electric and International TelegraphCompany 62 volumes , 1852 1905 are held by BT Archives . References reflist External links http distantwriting.co.uk Distant Writing The History of the Telegraph Companies in Britain between 1838 and 1868 http distantwriting.co.uk electrictelegraphcompany.html Distant Writing Detailed history of the Electric TelegraphCompany http www.btplc.com Thegroup BTsHistory BTgrouparchives index.htm BT Archives official site http www.bt.com archivesonline ... Category Telegraph companies of the United Kingdom Category 1846 establishments in the United Kingdom telecom company stub ... more details
Central exchange, opened in 1887. In 1899 it commissioned Telephone House in London s Temple Lane. The building still bears the company s NT logo and some cherubs holding what appear to be old style telephone handsets. The amalgamation policy continued in 1890 the NTC absorbed the Northern District TelephoneCompany and the South of EnglandTelephoneCompany, in 1892 the Western Counties and South Wales Company and the Sheffield Telephone Exchange and Electric Light Company and in 1893 the TelephoneCompany of Ireland Limited. Throughout this period the NTC also took over smaller telephone ... then wished to create a newcompany for the amalgamation of all their associated companies. However, the government declined to issue the proposed newcompany with a licence to operate or to allow ... and Cheshire TelephoneCompany and the NTC. The National TelephoneCompany Limited name being ... passed into liquidation. Historical documents Records of the National TelephoneCompany 51 ... Girls , Sally Southall, ISBN 1 85858 239 3 Records of the National TelephoneCompany, BT Archives ...Image Bell Edison logo.jpg right thumb Company logo on porch of 17 & 19 Newhall Street, Birmingham former Central exchange The National TelephoneCompany NTC was a United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland British telephonecompany from 1881 until 1911 which brought together smaller local companies in the early years of the telephone. Under the Telephone Transfer Act 1911 it was taken over by the General Post Office General Post Office GPO in 1912. History Three years after the first telephonecompany, The TelephoneCompany Bells Patents Ltd. , appeared in London in fact it was the first in Europe , NTC was formed on 10 March 1881, as a provincial subsidiary of the United TelephoneCompany Limited UTC . The NTC was initially formed to develop and operate telephone services in Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire .... Following the Telegraph Acts of 1892 and 1896, NTC trunk lines were acquired and transferred ... more details
The Alta TelegraphCompany was a telegraphcompany which operated in the mid 19th century within the state of California prior to the construction of the First Transcontinental Telegraph Transcontinental Telegraph . It was incorporated in the early 1850s. Its first line was constructed during 1854, stretching from Sacramento, California Sacramento to Marysville, California Marysville and extending up into the foothills of the adjacent Sierra Nevada US Sierra Nevada mountains. In subsequent years, a line was constructed between Sacramento and Benicia, California Benicia . From Benicia, a branch line was extended to Vallejo, California Vallejo and the US Navy yard at Mare Island . Telegraph Road In April 1859, a cable was run across the Carquinez Strait between Benicia and Martinez, California Martinez ref http books.google.com books?id HxIVAAAAYAAJ&pg PA79&source gbs toc r&cad 0 0 PPA314,M1 The History of Contra Costa County, Frederick J. Hulanski, Elms Publishing, 1917, p.314 ref , and a connecting line constructed from Martinez to Oakland, California Oakland over the Berkeley Hills . ref ... rise to the name Telegraph Road for the thoroughfare which the line followed down the western slope of the hills, which later became Telegraph Avenue in Oakland and Berkeley, California Berkeley . Lawsuit From Oakland, the Alta TelegraphCompany laid a cable under San Francisco Bay to San Francisco ... used by the competing California State TelegraphCompany under a special act of the State of California. The California State TelegraphCompany successfully sued the Alta TelegraphCompany for infringing ... . ref California State TelegraphCompany v. Alta TelegraphCompany, 22 Cal 398 1863 ref Mergers Soon after the lawsuit, the Alta TelegraphCompany decided to merge into the California State TelegraphCompany, which itself was eventually incorporated into the nationwide Western Union . References reflist Category Defunct companies based in California Category Telegraph companies of the United States ... more details
Rochester TelephoneCompany may refer to Rochester TelephoneNew York , a company founded in 1920 and changed its name to Frontier Corporation. Frontier Telephone of Rochester , a telephonecompany founded in 1994 as Rochester TelephoneCompany, now a subsidiary of Frontier Communications Rochester TelephoneCompany IN Rochester TelephoneCompany of Indiana disambig ... more details
File Kongens Nytorv 26 K benhavn.jpg thumb right Great Northern TelegraphCompany building, Kongens Nytorv , Copenhagen , built 1893 The company GN Store Nord A S was founded as the Great Northern TelegraphCompany Det Store Nordiske Telegrafselskab A S in Denmark in June 1869. It was set up as a merger of three recently established telegraph companies initiated by Carl Frederik Tietgen . The aim of the firm was to create a worldwide telegraphcompany. Today, GN Store Nord is a manufacturer of Jabra brand headsets through its GN Netcom division and of hearing aid hearing instruments and audiology audiological diagnostics equipment under the ReSound GN ReSound brand. Stock listing GN is listed on Copenhagen Stock Exchange NASDAQ OMX Copenhagen ISIN code DK001027263 2 . Headquarters This company s headquarters is located at Lautrupbjerg 7 in Ballerup near Copenhagen. Its former headquarters in Kongens Nytorv , Copenhagen was built in 1893 and still stands. coord 55 44 19 N 12 23 12 E region DK type landmark source kolossus dawiki display title Directors Incomplete 1873 1908 Edouard Suenson erhvervsmand Edouard Suenson 1908 1954 Kay Suenson 1954 Bent Suenson 1987 1993 Thomas Duer 1995 2001 J rgen Lindegaard External links Official site http www.gn.com http www.nasdaqomxnordic.com aktier shareinformation?Instrument CSE3205 GN at NASDAQ OMX Telecommunications OMX Copenhagen 20 companies Category Companies established in 1869 Category History of Denmark Category Electronics companies of Denmark Category Companies listed on the OMX exchanges Category Telegraph companies of Denmark Category Conglomerate companies of Denmark da GN Store Nord ja no GN Store Nord ru ... more details
, who also helped organize a sister company the NewEnglandTelephone and TelegraphCompany . The Bell TelephoneCompany was started on the basis of holding potentially valuable patents , principally ... company named American Telephone and TelegraphCompany on March 3, 1885. Starting from New ... Signs The History of the Blue Bell Telephone Sign as implemented by NewEnglandTelephone and Telegraph ... on February 17, 1879 to form two new entities, the National Bell TelephoneCompany of Boston, and the International Bell TelephoneCompany , soon after established by Hubbard and which was headquartered .... ref Pizer 2009, pg.127 ref The American Bell TelephoneCompany would later evolve into the American Telephone & TelegraphCompany AT&T , at times the world s largest telephonecompany . Predecessor ... under a power of attorney . Alexander Graham Bell s ten shares of Bell TelephoneCompany stock were later converted into a single share of the American Bell TelephoneCompany, and still later into two shares of the American Telephone and TelegraphCompany. AT&T President Frederick Fish would subsequently ... Bell were transferred into its subsidiary American Telephone and TelegraphCompany formerly AT&T ... which became the AT 26T History New AT&T . See also American Telephone & Telegraph Alexander Graham ...The Bell TelephoneCompany , a common law joint stock company , was organized in Boston, Massachusetts ... rapid growth and commercial success. The National Bell TelephoneCompany subsequently merged with others on March 20, 1880 to form the American Bell TelephoneCompany , also of Boston, Massachusetts. ref Pizer 2009, pg.125 ref Upon its inception, the Bell TelephoneCompany was organized with Hubbard ... assets of the Bell TelephoneCompany. ref Bruce 1990, pg.291 ref ref Pizer 2009, pp.120 124 ... president and a trustee of the Bell TelephoneCompany, and father in law of Alexander Graham Bell alt ... TelephoneCompany also known as the Bell Company as a joint stock company in 1877 by Hubbard, who ... more details
Telephone Building , Old Telephone Building , TelephoneCompany Building , or variations with abbreviations or otherwise, may refer to in the United States by state Old Bell Telephone Building Osceola, Arkansas Telephone Building Denver, Colorado , NRHP listed TelephoneCompany Bungalow , Paris, Idaho, National Register of Historic Places listings in Bear Lake County, Idaho listed on the NRHP in Bear Lake County, Idaho Telephone Co. Building Grand Forks, North Dakota , NRHP listed Old Telephone Building Fredericktown, Ohio , National Register of Historic Places listings in Knox County, Ohio listed on the NRHP in Knox County, Ohio See also List of telephonecompany buildings Telephone Exchange Building disambiguation Bell Telephone Building disambiguation Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Building disambiguation disambig ... more details
to the ITT Corporation International Telephone & TelegraphCompany of Cuba in 1925, ending a successful 46 year presence on the Continent. International Bell TelephoneCompany organization In 1879 ... Bell TelephoneCompany of New York City New York and the Western Electric Company of Chicago ..., a U.S. company formed during the era of the telegraph, became American Bell s sole telephone supplier ... Bell TelephoneCompany of New York. ref name Adams Butler By the end of 1886, the Belgian division ... International Telephone & TelegraphCompany of Cuba , at the start of that company s meteoric ...The International Bell TelephoneCompany IBTC of Brussels Brussels, Belgium , was created in 1879 by the Bell TelephoneCompany National Bell TelephoneCompany of Boston, Massachusetts , United States which later became the American Bell TelephoneCompany, and still later AT&T Corporation AT&T , initially ... 17, 2010. ref The International Bell rapidly evolved into an important European telephonecompany ... president of the Bell TelephoneCompany , founded the International Bell TelephoneCompany in order ... subsidiary s headquarters in their country. ref name StowgerNet The International Bell TelephoneCompany IBTC shortly evolved into a holding company for its various telephone service and production divisions, with its major manufacturing arm being the Bell Telephone Manufacturing Company BTMC , which ... that provided telephone services in the country, the others having evolved principally from telegraph ...., New York London, 1915. ref The company s parents, IBTC, which came to majority ownership of Western ... Europe and Russia . ref name Kingsbury 1915 Bell Telephone Manufacturing Company File Francis Raymond Welles, head of the Bell Telephone Manufacturing Company in Brussels.jpg thumb Francis Raymond Welles, c.1880, who became the head of Bell Telephone Manufacturing Company The Bell Telephone Manufacturing ... The Bell Telephone Manufacturing Company of Antwerp, Belgium . Retrieved from BobsOldPhones.net ... more details
Associated Telephone Utilities Company was a Wisconsin based power company which became bankrupt in 1933, during the Great Depression . ref name GTEBRIT GTE Corporation. 2011 . http www.britannica.com EBchecked topic 247519 GTE Corporation From Encyclop dia Britannica . Retrieved on September 13, 2001 ref Prior to the economic upheaval in the United States the utility was a prominent player in the electrical power business in the Midwestern United States . ref Associated Telephone Utilities , Wall Street Journal , June 22, 1934, pg. 16. ref An appeal by receivers appointed for the Associated Telephone Utilities Company was filed around April 1933, contesting the bankruptcy of the utility, and was reorganized in 1934 as General Telephone . ref name GTEBRIT A chancellor in a court of chancery permitted the petition to be filed in United States District Court . ref Associated Telephone Utilities , Wall Street Journal, April 24, 1933, pg. 13. ref Utility history The Associated Telephone Utilities Company acquired the Indiana Telegraph Securities Company and its subsidiary companies in August 1929. The purchased utility operated 9,819 stations in Logansport, Indiana and Greencastle, Indiana . ref Associated Tel. Utilities Co. , Wall Street Journal, August 6, 1929, pg. 14. ref The Associated Telephone Utilities Company increased its budget for 1930 to 7,000,000, an increase of 40 . It invested ... telephone operating companies were purchased by the Associated Telephone Utilities Company in August 1930. These utilities were consolidated with the Wisconsin properties of the Associated Telephone Utilities system. ref Associated Telephone Utilities , Wall Street Journal, August 21, 1930 ... this period the Midwestern utility worked in unison with the Associated Telephone Utilities System in New York . ref Associated Telephone , Wall Street Journal, August 14, 1931, pg. 14. ref For the year ending December 31, 1932 the firm realized a profit of 13,305 after taxes. ref TelephoneCompany ... more details
Infobox Companycompany name Armstrong TelephoneCompanycompany logo Image Armstrong telephone logo.png company type Privately held foundation 1946 location Butler, Pennsylvania Butler , Pennsylvania , USA industry Telecommunications products Plain old telephone service Landline Telephone Service homepage http telephone.agoc.com telephone.agoc.com Armstrong TelephoneCompany is a telecommunication s provider, and part of the Armstrong Group of Companies . The company primarily operates as a local exchange carrier in rural markets in West Virginia , Maryland , Pennsylvania and New York . External links http www.agoc.com Armstrong Group of Companies United States telephone companies CATV USA Category Telecommunications companies of the United States Category Companies based in Pennsylvania Category Companies established in 1946 US telecom company stub ... more details
telephonecompany in the United States was a telephonecompany providing local service that was not part ... before that date. The Strowger Automatic Telephone Exchange company had been formed on 30 October ... in Woodstock, Maine was famous as having the last Telephone magneto manual magneto hand crank telephone exchange in America. The family owned Bryant Pond TelephoneCompany was operated from a two position magneto switchboard in the living room of owners Barbara and Elden Hathaway. In 1981 the company was purchased by the Oxford County Telephone & TelegraphCompany, a nearby larger independent company ... telephone companies are in British Columbia , Ontario and Quebec . See also List of United States telephone companies List of Canadian telephone companies Canadian Independent Telephone Association Telephone exchange External links http www.privateline.com mt telephonehistory iv the telephone evolves 07 part g Bryant Pond TelephoneCompany http findarticles.com p articles mi m3065 ...File Seattle Taxicab Company Advertisement, 1911.jpg thumb This 1911 advertisement from Seattle shows ... Carlson in 1894 and Kellogg Switchboard & Supply Company in 1897. By 1903 while the Bell system had ... Telephone Engineer and Management, 15 March 1985 pp87 89 ref Later see Western Electric one estimate was that there were 1300 independent telephone companies. The size ranged up from the small ... and the wife operating a manual switchboard. Later these small companies would have a Class 5 telephone ... manufactured by the Automatic Electric Company , Stromberg Carlson or the Kellogg Switchboard & Supply Company . Large independent companies like GTE , Theodore Gary & Company , Sprint Nextel United Telecom ... Utilities Service , could provide assistance to telephone co operatives to extend telephone service in rural areas. The voice of the smaller independents were the two magazines, Telephony and Telephone Engineer and Management TE&M , both from Chicago. The United States Independent Telephone ... more details
The Oriental TelephoneCompany was established on January 25, 1881, as the result of an agreement between Thomas Edison , Alexander Graham Bell , the Oriental Bell TelephoneCompany of New York and the Anglo Indian TelephoneCompany, Ltd. The company was licensed to sell telephones in Greece , Turkey , South Africa , India , Japan , China , and other Asia n countries. ref http edison.rutgers.edu list.htm TTFor The Thomas A. Edison Papers Edison Companies , Rutgers University. Retrieved 2009. ref References reflist Category Companies established in 1881 Category Alexander Graham Bell Category Thomas Edison Category Telecommunications companies of the United States Telecom company stub ... more details
CompanyNew York Times ref AT&T American Telephone and Telegraph AT&T eventually acquired a controlling .... At that time, New York Telephone, along with the NewEnglandTelephoneNewEnglandTelephone & Telegraph ... edition ref The rest of Connecticut is served by Southern NewEnglandTelephone SNET , an AT&T company ... 26,800 2005 parent Bell TelephoneCompany American Bell 1896 1899 br American Telephone and Telegraph ... City Subway owner company slogan fka The New York TelephoneCompany 1896 2000 homepage http www.verizon.com www.verizon.com footnotes The New York TelephoneCompany NYTel was organized in 1896, taking over the New York City operations of the American Telephone & Telegraph American Bell TelephoneCompany . Predecessor companies The TelephoneCompany of New York was formed under franchise in 1876 ... Telegraph, and American Speaking Telephone, based their New York and San Francisco operations on the telephone ... Telephone. The merged local company was called the Metropolitan Telephone and TelegraphCompany . ref ... In 1896 the operations of Metropolitan Telephone and TelegraphCompany and the Westchester TelephoneCompany which served northern suburban areas, including parts of then Westchester County, New York ... were consolidated under the name of the New York TelephoneCompany . ref cite news title Under NewTelephoneCompany. Business of Metropolitan and Westchester Companies Absorbed. curly y url http ... 81 Wil jeh.JPG thumb New York and New Jersey TelephoneCompany building The New York and New Jersey TelephoneCompany, a Bell licencee serving Long Island and Staten Island, was broken up and its New York properties merged with the New York company as the City and Suburban TelephoneCompany in 1897 ... to as New York Telephone, a NYNEX Company before being called simply NYNEX starting on January ... West St. See also NewEnglandTelephone NYNEX Bell System Western Electric AT&T References See http ...Refimprove date July 2009 Infobox Companycompany name Verizon New York, Inc. company logo File Verizon ... more details
Alaska Power and TelephoneCompany is a communication s and utilities firm operating in Alaska . It currently provides service above the Arctic Circle , in the Wrangell Mountains , and throughout southeastern Alaskan Islands. Its business units are named Power, Telephone , Hydro Power, Wireless, and Internet . External links http www.aptalaska.com Alaska Power and TelephoneCompany br clear all United States telephone companies DEFAULTSORT Alaska Power And TelephoneCompany Category Companies based in Alaska US telecom company stub ... more details
Infobox companycompany name Century TelephoneCompany of Virginia company logo company type Private company Private Subsidiary of CenturyLink company slogan foundation 1971 location key people industry Telecommunications num employees revenue parent Centel 1971 1992 br Sprint Nextel 1992 2006 br Embarq 2006 2009 br CenturyLink 2009 present products Plain old telephone service Local Telephone Service subsid homepage http www.centurylink.com Central TelephoneCompany of Virginia is a telephonecompany owned by CenturyLink that provides local telephone service within the Virginia commonwealth of Virginia . The company was founded in 1971 under ownership by Centel . ref http www.secretary.state.nc.us corporations Filings.aspx?PItemId 4624853 Corporate Filings For Central TelephoneCompany of Virginia, April 18, 1994 ref The latter company was acquired by Sprint Nextel Sprint in 1992. The company remained in Sprint hands until 2006 when its local telephone operations were spun off as Embarq . In 2009, Embarq was acquired by CenturyTel, becoming CenturyLink in 2010. References Reflist CenturyLink Category CenturyLink Category Sprint Nextel Category Companies established in 1971 Category Communications in Virginia Category Telecommunications companies of the United States ... more details
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