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First multiplexed telephone circuits
Slideshow: Pac Tel 1912: Buildings and Vehicles
Pac Tel 1912: Buildings and Vehicles
Slideshow: 20 photos
Slideshow: Pac Tel 1912: Central Office Scenes
Pac Tel 1912: Central Office Scenes
Slideshow: 49 photos
Slideshow: Pac Tel 1912: Outside plant construction
Pac Tel 1912: Outside plant construction
Slideshow: 57 photos
Siemens begins laying the Rhineland cable
Siemens begins laying the Rhineland cable
GPO takes over entire UK telephone network
GPO takes over entire UK telephone network
Slideshow: Telephone Exchanges of the World, 1913
Telephone Exchanges of the World, 1913
Slideshow: 27 photos
Vacuum tube repeater demonstrated
AT&T divests Western Union
AT&T divests Western Union
AT&T forced to open up its long-distance lines to independent competitors
AT&T forced to open up its long-distance lines to independent competitors
U.S. drops antitrust suit against AT&T, cementing its quasi-monopoly
U.S. drops antitrust suit against AT&T, cementing its quasi-monopoly
500 Western Electric employees die in disaster on way to company picnic
500 Western Electric employees die in disaster on way to company picnic
Hartley invents the Hartley oscillator
First transcontinental phone call (between Bell and Watson)
Arnold perfects the vacuum-tube telephone amplifier
Pelo Telefone (Donga)
Pelo Telefone (Donga)
Bell system introduces rotary dialing, and the dial candlestick
Bell system introduces rotary dialing, and the dial candlestick
Theodore Gary acquires Automatic Electric
Julia O'Connor leads the first operators' strike