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Bell Telephone founded by Gardiner Hubbard, AGB's father-in-law
1877
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Bell Telephone Co. becomes National Bell Telephone
1879
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National Bell Telephone Co. becomes American Bell Telephone Co.
1880
Western Electric becomes Bell's manufacturer
1882
American Bell forms AT&T as subsidiary
1885
Bell's patent expires; independent telephone movement begins
1894
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AT&T becomes holding company for all of American Bell's assets
1899
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Theodore Vail returns to AT&T as President
1907
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Kingsbury Commitment
1913
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Carty achieves transcontinental telephone service
1915
Bell System adopts rotary dial switching
1919
C&P Telephone repair shop
1925
A Desert Span, Building Trunk Telephone Lines (AT&T)
1929
The Astonishing, Unfailing Bell System
1967
All Kinds of People (AT&T)
1972
Careers: Service Representative (AT&T)
1974
Careers: Line Worker (AT&T)
1974
Careers: Toll Operator (AT&T)
1974
The Engineer (AT&T)
1974
Good-Bye, Central
1978
Tour of AT&T's Network Operations Center (AT&T)
1979
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AT&T antitrust settlement
1982
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Judge Greene orders breakup of the Bell System
1982
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Bell System breakup takes effect
1984
Designing, Building and Testing the Trimline Phone (AT&T)
1985