Telecommunications history

Alexander Graham Bell ( March 3, 1847 – August 2, 1922) was a Scottish scientist and inventor. Today, he is still widely considered to be the inventor of the telephone, although this matter has become controversial, with a number of people claiming that Antonio Meucci was the 'real' inventor and others holding out for Elisha Gray, the founder of the Western Electric Manufacturing Company. In addition to his work in telecommunications technology, he was responsible for important advances in aviation and hydrofoil technology. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alexander Graham Bell"

All Red Line is an informal name for the system of electrical telegraphs that linked all the British Empire. ...more on Wikipedia about "All Red Line"

Almon Brown Strowger ( 1839 – May 26, 1902) gave his name to the electromechanical telephone exchange technology that his invention and patent inspired. ...more on Wikipedia about "Almon Strowger"

Antonio Santi Giuseppe Meucci ( April 13, 1808– October 18, 1896) was an Italian inventor. In Italy, he is generally recognized as the inventor of the telephone. Until recently, the rest of the world widely attributed this to Alexander Graham Bell, but the matter was thrown into controversy when, in June 2002, the United States House of Representatives passed a symbolic bill officially recognizing Meucci for his contributions to the invention of the telephone. ...more on Wikipedia about "Antonio Meucci"

The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) developed by ARPA of the U.S. Department of Defense was the world's first operational packet switching network, and the progenitor of the global Internet. ...more on Wikipedia about "ARPANET"

(ASR33) The ASR32 was a similar device, but used five hole Baudot code. The otherwise identical KSR33 and KSR32 models lacked the paper tape reader and punch. "KSR" stood for " keyboard send and receive" while "ASR" stood for "automatic send and receive." ...more on Wikipedia about "ASR33"

AT&T Alascom is an Alaskan telecommunications company; specifically, an interexchange carrier (IXC). AT&T Alascom is currently a wholly-owned subsidiary of AT&T. AT&T Alascom, previously known as Alascom and many other names, was the first long-distance telephone company in Alaska. AT&T Alascom has extensive telecommunications infrastructure in Alaska, including three satellites, undersea and terrestrial fiber-optic cable, and numerous earth stations. ...more on Wikipedia about "AT&T Alascom"

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The Atlantic Telegraph Company was a company formed in 1856 to undertake and exploit a commercial telegraph cable across the Atlantic ocean, the first such telecommunications link. ...more on Wikipedia about "Atlantic Telegraph Company"

The automatic curb sender was a kind of telegraph key, invented by William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin for sending messages on a submarine cable, as the well-known Wheatstone transmitter sends them on a land line. ...more on Wikipedia about "Automatic curb sender"

The Automatic Digital Network (AUTODIN) is a legacy data communications ...more on Wikipedia about "Automatic Digital Network"

Automatic Electric Company was a telephone equipment supplier for independent phone companies similar in many ways to the Bell System's Western Electric. ...more on Wikipedia about "Automatic Electric Company"

The Baudot code, named after its inventor Émile Baudot, is a character set predating EBCDIC and ASCII and used originally and primarily on teleprinters. ...more on Wikipedia about "Baudot code"

The Bell 103 modem was the first commercial modem for computers, released by AT&T in 1962. It allowed digital data to be transmitted over regular telephone lines at a speed of 300 bits per second. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bell 103 modem"

Bell Telephone Laboratories Inc., also known as Bell Labs and AT&T Bell Laboratories, was the research and development arm of the US Bell System. It was the premier facility of its type, developing a range of revolutionary technologies including the transistor, Laser, and the UNIX operating system. There have been 6 Nobel Prizes awarded for work done at Bell Labs ** . ...more on Wikipedia about "Bell Labs"

The Bell Telephone Company of Pennsylvania, or Bell of Pennsylvania, is the former name of the Bell Operating Company serving Pennsylvania. In 1984, the Bell System Divestiture split Bell of Pennsylvania off into a Regional Holding Company, along with the 20 other BOCs AT&T had a majority stake in. On January 1, 1984, Bell of Pennsylvania became part of Bell Atlantic. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bell of Pennsylvania"

The Bell System was a trademark and service mark used by the US telecommunications company American Telephone & Telegraph Company (AT&T) and its affiliated companies to co-brand their extensive circuit-switched telephone network and their affiliations with each other. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bell System"

The break up of AT&T was initiated in 1974 by the U.S. Department of Justice anti-trust suit against the telephone monopoly. Under the terms of a settlement finalized on January 8, 1982, " Ma Bell" agreed to divest its local exchange service operating companies, in return for a chance to go into the computer business, AT&T Computer Systems. Effective January 1, 1984, AT&T's local operations were split into seven independent Regional Bell Operating Companies (RBOCs) known as " Baby Bells". AT&T, reduced in value by about 70%, continued to run all its long distance services, although it lost some market share in the ensuing years to competitors MCI and Sprint. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bell System divestiture"

BITNET was a cooperative U.S. university network founded in 1981 under the aegis of Ira Fuchs at the City University of New York (CUNY) and Greydon Freeman at Yale University. The first network link was between CUNY and Yale. ...more on Wikipedia about "BITNET"

Robert E. Kahn, (born December 23 1938), along with Vinton G. Cerf, invented the TCP/IP protocol, the technology used to transmit information on the modern Internet. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bob Kahn"

C&P Telephone was a d/b/a name for four of AT&T's, and after January 1, 1984, Bell Atlantic's Bell Operating Companies. ...more on Wikipedia about "C&P Telephone"

Cromwell Fleetwood Varley ( April 6, 1828 - September 2, 1883) was an English engineer, particularly associated with the development of the electric telegraph and the transatlantic telegraph cable. ...more on Wikipedia about "C.F. Varley"

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Cable and Wireless ( ) is a British telecommunications company. In the mid-1980s, it became the first company in the UK to offer an alternative telephone service to British Telecom (via subsidiary Mercury Communications, merged into C&W in 1997). The company later offered cable TV to its customers, although their cable assets were sold to NTL in 2000. ...more on Wikipedia about "Cable & Wireless"

Sir Charles Tilston Bright (1832-1888), was an British electrical engineer who oversaw the laying of the first transatlantic telegraph cable , for which work he was knighted. ...more on Wikipedia about "Charles Tilston Bright"

Sir Charles Wheatstone ( February 6, 1802 - October 19, 1875) was the British inventor of many innovations including ...more on Wikipedia about "Charles Wheatstone"

The Communications Act of 1934 was a United States federal law enacted as Public Law Number 416 on June 19, 1934, by the 73rd Congress to replace the Federal Radio Commission with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). It also transferred regulation of interstate telephone services from the Interstate Commerce Commission to the FCC. ...more on Wikipedia about "Communications Act of 1934"

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