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Alexander Graham Bell
Telephone inventor and patent holder
Thomas A. Watson
Bell collaborator and co-founder
Thomas Edison
Early telephone innovator
Gardiner Greene Hubbard
First President of Bell Telephone
Lars Magnus Ericsson
Swedish telephone entrepreneur and inventor
Theodore Newton Vail
Built the AT&T monopoly
Elisha Gray
Inventor and Bell competitor
Charles Williams, Jr.
Telephone and telegraph manufacturer
William Orton
Western Union President
Francis Blake
Telephone transmitter inventor
Enos M. Barton
Western Electric co-founder
George May Phelps
Telegraph and telephone innovator
Thomas S. Sanders
First investor in Bell Telephone
Almon Strowger
Automatic switching and dialing inventor
Milo G. Kellogg
Switchboard innovator and Kellogg founder
Hilda Ericsson
Swedish entrepreneur
Theodore Gary
Built empire of independent telephone companies
Emile Berliner
Telephone transmitter innovator
Ezra Gilliland
Telephone switchboard innovator
Tivadar Puskás
Telephone exchange designer
Alfred Stromberg
Stromberg-Carlson founder
Sosthenes Behn
ITT founder
William Gray
Payphone inventor and entrepreneur
Werner von Siemens
Siemens founder
Mabel Gardiner Hubbard
Alexander Graham Bell's wife
J. P. Morgan
Banker
Amos Dolbear
'Talking telegraph' developer
Henry Dreyfuss
Industrial designer
William Hathaway Forbes
Bell early investor and President
Alexander Melville Bell
Alexander Graham Bell's father and mentor
Androv Carlson
Stromberg Carlson founder
George Willard Coy
Developed first local exchange
Sallie Pero Mead
Mathematician and wireless innovator
Moses Greeley Parker
Early Bell investor, had idea for phone numbers
Dennis Ritchie
UNIX co-creator
Brian Kernighan
Unix and C co-developer
John J. Carty
AT&T Chief Engineer
Charles Fleetford Sise
Started Bell Canada
Harold Stephen Black
Invented the negative feedback amplifier
Marian Croak
Voice over IP inventor
Erna Schneider Hoover
Computerized telephone switching innovator
Guglielmo Marconi
Wireless telegraph (radio) inventor
Antonio Meucci
Early telephone innovator
Helen Repa
Western Electric hero in Eastland Disaster.
Granville Woods
Telegraphony developer
James J. Storrow
Attorney who masterminded Bell patent litigation
Ken Thompson
Unix co-creator
Gertrude Mercer McCurdy
Bell promoter (and Hubbard's wife)
Willard Boyle
Charge coupled device inventor
William Francis Channing
Arno Allan Penzias
Cosmic radiation co-discoverer
George E. Smith
Charge coupled device inventor
Robert Woodrow Wilson
Cosmic radiation co-discoverer
Harold D. Arnold
First Bell Labs research director
Martin Cooper
Cellular telephony inventor
Homer Dudley
Speech synthesis inventor
Richard H. Frenkiel
Cellular telephony innovator
Harry Fuld
German telephone entrepreneur
Harold H. Greene
Judge who oversaw AT&T's breakup
Dennis Hayes
Modem inventor
Frank B. Jewett
Radio telephony pioneer
Joybubbles
Early phone phreak
Amos E. Joel Jr.
Hedy Lamarr
Actress and wireless telephony innovator
Robert W. Lucky
Emma Nutt
First female telephone operator
Julia O'Connor
Telephone labor leader
Johann Philipp Reis
Reis telephone developer
Giles Gilbert Scott
Designer of the UK red telephone kiosk
Claude Shannon
John Bardeen
Transistor co-inventor
Walter Brattain
Transistor co-inventor
Daryl Chapin
Solar cell co-inventor
Calvin Souther Fuller
Solar cell co-inventor
Gerald Pearson
Solar cell co-inventor
William Shockley
Transistor co-inventor
Bjarne Stroustrup
Donald Genaro
Industrial designer
Arthur Leonard Schawlow
Charles H. Townes
Julius Andrae
Andrae Telephone founder
BS
Bishnu S. Atal
Hendrik Wade Bode
Vint Cerf
Clinton Davisson
John Draper
Reginald Fessenden
Harvey Fletcher
Lee de Forest
Oliver Heaviside
Charles K. Kao
MK
Maurice Karnaugh
Mervin Kelly
RK
Rudolf Kompfner
Max Mathews
Craig McCaw
William G. McGowan
MCI Founder
Robert Metcalfe
WG
William Gardner Pfann
John R. Pierce
Valdemar Poulsen
Mihajlo Pupin
Alec Reeves
Pulse code modulation inventor
Manfred R. Schroeder
George Stibitz
John Tukey
Otto Julius Zobel
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