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John Tukey
Theodore Vail
Built the AT&T monopoly
American Bell · AT&T / Bell System · Bell Telephone · Western Electric | Associates: Enos M. Barton, Alexander Graham Bell, John J. Carty, William Hathaway Forbes, Walter Sherman Gifford, Gardiner Greene Hubbard, Bancroft Gherardi Jr., J. P. Morgan, Harry Bates Thayer, Thomas A. Watson, Charles Williams, Jr., Thomas B. Doolittle
1878
Theodore Newton Vail (July 16, 1845 – April 16, 1920) was an American businessman who served as the general manager of the Bell Telephone Company from 1878 to 1887 and became the founding president of American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) in 1885. Vail viewed telephone service as a public utility and moved to consolidate telephone networks under the Bell system. In 1913, he oversaw the Kingsbury Commitment that led to a more open system for connection.
Theodore was born on July 16, 1845, in Malvern, Ohio, and was educated in Morristown, New Jersey. He initially studied medicine… More on Wikipedia →
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