Werner von Siemens founds Siemens & Halske and designs pointing telegraph
Elisha Gray and Enos Barton incorporate Western Electric, with $ from Western Union
Lars Magnus Ericsson founds Ericsson as a mechanical engineering shop
First telephone directory published
Emma Nutt becomes first female telephone operator
Bell and New England Telephone merge to become National Bell Telephone
National Bell merges with American Speaking Tel. Co. to become American Bell Telephone Co.
Bell Telephone Company of Canada founded
American Bell Telephone Annual Report, 1881
National Telephone Co formed by merger of Bell and Edison interests
Bell acquires Western Electric to become its manufacturing subsidiary.
American Bell Telephone Annual Report, 1882
First long-distance line: Boston to Providence
American Bell Telephone Annual Report, 1884
Ericsson opens its first major factory at Tulegatan
American Bell Telephone Annual Report, 1885
American Bell forms AT&T as subsidiary to operate long distance network
American Bell Telephone Annual Report, 1887
American Bell Telephone Annual Report, 1889
American Bell Telephone Annual Report, 1890
Telephone service begins between Tokyo and Yokohama
American Bell Telephone Annual Report, 1891
Strowger forms Automatic Electric Company, and receives switch patent
American Bell Telephone Annual Report, 1892
American Bell Telephone Annual Report, 1893
American Bell Telephone Annual Report, 1894
Lines going into the back of switchboards in Los Angeles central office
Stromberg and Carlson found Stromberg-Carlson
American Bell Telephone Annual Report, 1895
American Bell Telephone Annual Report, 1896
GPO takes over UK trunk network from National Telephone Company
American Bell Telephone Annual Report, 1897
Milo Kellogg founds Kellogg Switchboard and Supply
American Bell Telephone Annual Report, 1898
AT&T long distance advertising (pocket map cover)
American Bell Telephone Annual Report, 1899
NEC founded as Japan's first foreign joint venture
Henry Elston showing off his company's telephones
AT&T becomes holding company for American Bell's assets
Western Electric Hawthorne Works opens in Chicago
AT&T acquires struggling local independent telcos, funded by J.P. Morgan
Theodore Vail returns to AT&T as President, backed by J.P. Morgan
AT&T buys Western Union controlling interest, gaining access to its network
Siemens begins laying the Rhineland cable
GPO takes over entire UK telephone network
AT&T divests Western Union
U.S. drops antitrust suit against AT&T, cementing its quasi-monopoly
500 Western Electric employees die in disaster on way to company picnic
Theodore Gary acquires Automatic Electric
Julia O'Connor leads the first telephone operators' strike
Sosthenes Behn founds ITT; later collaborates with the Nazis
France creates PTT Administration
First red telephone boxes appear in the U.K.
C&P Telephone repair shop
AT&T sells its European subsidiaries to ITT
Automatic Electric acquires American Electric and Monarch Telephone
Things Worth Knowing About The Telephone
A Desert Span, Building Trunk Telephone Lines (AT&T)
Phone Pioneers Talk Telephone
Communications Act of 1934
The Birth and Babyhood Of the Telephone, By Thomas Watson
The Story of Western Electric
The Voice of the City (Operators)
Operator! 1938 video profiling operators.
National Federation of Telephone Workers (NFTW) formed
From The Far Corners of the Earth
Operators on cover of Saturday Evening Post
Western Electric halts phone production to produce wartime systems (e.g. radar)
Newfoundland Long Lines, a WWII Film (U.S. Army / AT&T)
War and the Telephone (AT&T)
'War still needs the wires' ad
A Half-Century of Service
England recruits telephone operators amid postwar shortage
1947 NFTW telephone strike
Communication Workers of America (CWA) formed
Movie Theater Newsreel (AT&T)
Automatic Electric acquires Gray Manufacturing Co.
Telephone lineman on cover of Saturday Evening Post
Instructional film for operators
Cable to Cuba, Laying Undersea Cable (AT&T)
Strowger Automatic: A Sixty Year Report
'Sally doesnt solder anymore' ad
The Story of Western Electric
Refurbishing pay phones ad
The History of Lincoln Tel.
This is Automatic Electric
GTE Acquires Automatic Electric
Transatlantic telephone cable (TAT-1)
Cable to the Continent, the Second Transatlantic Telephone Cable (AT&T)
The Far Sound, a History of Long Distance Communications (AT&T)
TPC-1: First transpacific telephone cable
INTELSAT founded for global satellite communications
Bell Canada acquires Northern Electric
The Astonishing, Unfailing Bell System
Nokia Corporation formed by three-way merger
Pollution (Western Electric)
London Telephone Exchange
Careers: Service Representative (AT&T)
Careers: Line Worker (AT&T)
Careers: Toll Operator (AT&T)
Carol Burnett: Phone Operator
Telephone Office Planning and Engineering System (Bell Labs)
Tour of AT&T's Network Operations Center (AT&T)
How Pacific Bell Prepared for West Coast Earthquakes
We Make Telephones (Western Electric)
British Telecom separates from Post Office
AT&T's workforce peaks at 1,009,000
AT&T antitrust settlement
Judge Greene orders breakup of Bell System
Designing, Building and Testing the Trimline Phone (AT&T)
McCaw builds the largest U.S. cellular carrier
French PTT becomes France Telecom
Deutsche Telekom AG becomes independent company
Northern Telecom becomes Nortel
Telecommunications Act of 1996