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People Decade Early Bell Bell Labs Business Digital Electronics Math Wireless Telegraph Switching

Thomas A. Watson

Thomas A. Watson

Bell collaborator and entrepreneur

Gardiner Greene Hubbard

Gardiner Greene Hubbard

Godfather of the Bell System

Thomas Edison

Early telephone innovator

Theodore Vail

Built the AT&T monopoly

Thomas B. Doolittle

Thomas B. Doolittle

Telephone and copper wire innovator

Charles Williams, Jr.

Charles Williams, Jr.

Telephone and telegraph manufacturer

Lars Magnus Ericsson

Lars Magnus Ericsson

Swedish telephone entrepreneur and inventor

William Shockley

William Shockley

Transistor co-inventor

Enos M. Barton

Western Electric co-founder

William Orton

Western Union President

Thomas S. Sanders

Thomas S. Sanders

First investor in Bell Telephone

William Hathaway Forbes

William Hathaway Forbes

Bell early investor and President

Milo G. Kellogg

Milo G. Kellogg

Switchboard innovator and Kellogg founder

James J. Storrow

James J. Storrow

Attorney who masterminded Bell patent litigation

Hilda Ericsson

Swedish entrepreneur

Walter Sherman Gifford

Walter Sherman Gifford

AT&T president in the 1930s and 40s

Almon Strowger

Automatic switching and dialing inventor

Steve Jobs

Early phone phreak and iPhone inventor

Henry Dreyfuss

Industrial designer

Theodore Gary

Built empire of independent telephone companies

William Gray

Payphone inventor and entrepreneur

J. P. Morgan

AT&T financier and banker

Alfred Stromberg

Alfred Stromberg

Stromberg-Carlson founder

Sosthenes Behn

George Willard Coy

George Willard Coy

Developed first local exchange

Moses Greeley Parker

Moses Greeley Parker

Early Bell investor, had idea for phone numbers

Werner von Siemens

Werner von Siemens

Siemens founder

Charles Fleetford Sise

Charles Fleetford Sise

Started Bell Canada

Harry Bates Thayer

Harry Bates Thayer

AT&T president in the 1920s

Androv Carlson

Stromberg Carlson founder

William G. McGowan

William G. McGowan

Malcolm C. Rorty

Malcolm C. Rorty

AT&T statistician and econometrics pioneer

Harry Fuld

German telephone entrepreneur

Dennis Hayes

Craig McCaw

Cellular telephone entrepreneur

Julia O'Connor

Telephone labor leader

Arthur W. Page

Father of corporate public relations

Julius Andrae

Andrae Telephone founder