Société Industrielle des Téléphones, created in December 1893 when the Société Générale des Téléphones merged with the Menier cable and rubber factories. SIT inherited a dominant portfolio of telephone patents including those of Gower, Edison, Blake, and Ader, and operated factories in Paris, Levallois-Perret, Bezons, and Calais. The company produced the iconic "Violon" mahogany wall telephone around 1903 and fabricated the 1898 French Transatlantic Telegraph Cable from Brest to Cape Cod — at 3,174 nautical miles, the longest submarine cable of its era. Acquired by Compagnie Générale d'Électricité in 1936, SIT's assets evolved through CIT and CIT-Alcatel into what is today part of Nokia.
