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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, that dominated the telephone services industry
1912 Bell System advertisement promoting its slogan for universal service
195 Broadway, AT&T headquarters for most of the 20th century
The Spirit of Communication as used on the Bell System's directories in the 1930s and 1940s
Manhole cover with Bell System logo
Bell Telephone Company
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The Bell Telephone Company was an American telecommunications company active from 1877 to 1899. It was the initial corporate entity from which the Bell System originated to build a continental conglom
Bell System
…The Bell System was a system of telecommunication companies, led by the Bell Telephone Company and later by the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, that dominated the telephone services industry in North America for over 100 years from its…
The master telephone patent (174465), granted March 7, 1876
Gardiner Greene Hubbard, first president and a trustee of the Bell Telephone Company, and father-in-law of Alexander Graham Bell
The Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia, 1876, brought Bell international attention.
Alexander Graham Bell ceremonially inaugurating the first New York-to-Chicago telephone line in 1892