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Werner von Siemens founds Siemens & Halske
Elisha Gray founds the Western Electric Manufacturing Company
Lars Magnus Ericsson founds Ericsson
Bell Telephone founded by Gardiner Hubbard, AGB's father-in-law
Bell Telephone Co. becomes National Bell Telephone
National Bell Telephone Co. becomes American Bell Telephone Co.
1882 Western Electric Catalogue
1882 WE Telegraph Instruments and Supplies
Fancy 'Pulpit' phone
Western Electric becomes Bell's manufacturer
1884 The Long Distance Telephone Co.
Ericsson 1886 catalog
1889 Eureka Electric Catalog
Ericsson 1889 catalog
Almon Strowger invents the automatic switch
Gray patents the coin-operated pay telephone
Strowger forms Automatic Electric Company, and receives switch patent
Ericsson 1892 catalog
First Strowger automatic exchange opens (in LaPorte, Indiana)
1893 TW Ness Catalog
1894 Western Telephone Catalog
Bell's patent expires; independent telephone movement begins
Stromberg and Carlson found Stromberg-Carlson
c.1895 DeVeau Catalog
GPO takes over UK trunk network
1897 Keystone Telephone Catalog #3
Ericsson 1897 catalog
Milo Kellogg founds Kellogg Switchboard and Supply
Western Telephone Catalog
c 1899 Chicago Telephone Supply Catalog 29
Mianus Electric Co. 1899
AT&T becomes holding company for all of American Bell's assets
Wood Wall Telephones Catalog
Connecticut Telephone Desk Phones (Potbelly) C&D
Rural Telephone Lines And How To Build Them
1901 Catalog General
Ericsson 1901 German catalog
Ericsson 1901 English catalog
Ericsson 1902 catalog
Magneto Telephones Catalog
Farr 1904 Circular 1
c1904 Chicago Telephone Supply Catalog 42
Andrae Catalog 10 1905
How The Telephone Helps The Farmer
1905 Generator Call Telephones
Theodore Vail returns to AT&T as President
Kellogg Intercoms Catalog
1908 Western Electric Catalog
Strowger factory
c 1910 Andrae Telephone And Supplies Catalog
Ericsson 1910 catalog (1)
Ericsson 1910 catalog (2)
Ericsson 1910 catalog (3)
Ericsson 1911 catalog (1)
Ericsson 1911 catalog (2)
Gray Pay Stations Catalog
1912 General Catalogue 3A
c1912 Chicago Telephone Supply Catalog 51
Western Electric Catalog Bulletin 12
Ericsson 1913 catalog (1)
Ericsson 1913 catalog (2)
Ericsson 1913 catalog (3)
Kingsbury Commitment
1914 Farr Catalog 14
1914 Local Battery Switchboards
Ericsson 1914 catalog (1)
Ericsson 1914 catalog (2)
Ericsson 1914 catalog (3)
Catalog Number 15
Telephones for Interior Use
Magneto Switchboards Bul. 10
Switchboards Bulletin 11
c1915 Andrae Giant Telephones
Magneto Telephones Bulletin
Carty achieves transcontinental telephone service
1916 Common Battery Catalog
PBX Switchboards
Kellogg Telephone Facts 1916
1917 wood phone catalog
1917 Monarch Telephone Co. Bulletin 34
Interior Telephones Catalog
Bell System adopts rotary dial switching
1921 High Efficiency Switchboards
Railroad Telephone And Selective Apparatus
Ericsson 1922 catalog (1)
Ericsson 1922 catalog (2)
Ericsson 1922 catalog (3)
Interior Telephones Catalog
General Catalog 6
Ericsson 1923 catalog (1)
Ericsson 1923 catalog (2)
C&P Telephone repair shop
Bell Labs founded, in NYC
Apparatus Catalog 7
Switchboards Bulletin 121
Black invents the negative feedback amplifier
Ives demonstrates the first television telephone
Magneto Telephone Catalog 54
Bltn 8X PBX Switchboards
Ericsson 1928 catalog
A Desert Span, Building Trunk Telephone Lines (AT&T)
Telephone Buildings Of The Bell System
Ericsson 1930 catalog (1)
Ericsson 1930 catalog (2)
Stromberg Carlson 'Batphone'
Strowger Dial Telephones and Parts
Manual Telephones and Parts
General Catalog No. 9
The Bell System
Kellogg 900
Ericsson 1934 catalog (1)
Ericsson 1934 catalog (2)
Ericsson 1934 catalog (3)
Telephone Apparatus for Mines
Gray Telephone Pay Stations Catalog
Ericsson 1935 catalog (1)
Ericsson 1935 catalog (2)
Ericsson 1935 catalog (3)
Ericsson 1935 catalog (4)
Ericsson 1935 catalog (5)
Ericsson 1935 catalog (6)
Ericsson 1935 catalog (7)
Ericsson 1935 catalog (8)
Ericsson 1935 catalog (9)
Ericsson 1935 catalog (10)
Ericsson 1935 catalog (11)
Ericsson 1935 catalog (12)
Ericsson 1935 catalog (13)
Ericsson 1935 catalog (14)
Ericsson 1935 catalog (15)
Central Energy Telephones
Magneto Catalog 92
Building and Maintaining Rural Telphone Lines
The Birth and Babyhood Of the Telephone
Ericsson 1937 catalog
Dreyfuss designs the Western Electric Model 302
The Story of Western Electric
Ericsson 1938 catalog
From The Far Corners of the Earth
The Crossbar System Bell Labs
Private Telephone Systems and Accessories
Ericsson 1939 catalog
AE 40
Telephone Parts and Substation Accessories
Catalog 100
General Catalog #10 (Part 1)
Bell Labs moves to Murray Hill, NJ
Ericsson 1942 catalog
Wartime Rebuilding Catalog
Gray Paystations For New Revenue
Victory Calling
Ericsson 1944 catalog (1)
Ericsson 1944 catalog (2)
Ericsson 1944 catalog (3)
Ericsson 1945 catalog (1)
Ericsson 1945 catalog (2)
Ericsson 1945 catalog (3)
Ericsson 1945 catalog (4)
A Half-Century of Service
Thermistors By Western Electric
Ericsson 1946 catalog (1)
Ericsson 1946 catalog (2)
Kellogg 1000 X-Ray Explainer
Kellogg Masterdial Xray Explainer
Bltn #815: Selectophone
Transistor invented at Bell Labs
Masterphone 1000 Brochure
Plan For Telephones At Home Bell System 1948
Planning For Telephones In Large Buildings
Automatic Electric acquires Gray Manufacturing Co.
Monophones And Substation Accessories
AT&T Annual Report 1949
AT&T Annual Report 1950
AT&T Annual Report 1951
Ericsson 1951 catalog
Strowger Automatic: A Sixty Year Report
AT&T Annual Report 1952
IT&T acquires Kellogg
700 SERIES Leich Brochure
AT&T Annual Report 1953
Ericsson 1953 catalog (1)
Ericsson 1953 catalog (2)
No. 3 Toll Switchboard Bul. 5410
1954 Western Electric Catalog
The Story of Western Electric
AT&T Annual Report 1954
The Ericofon
The History of Lincoln Tel.
1955 Central Office Equipment
This is Automatic Electric
AT&T Annual Report 1955
AT&T Annual Report 1956
The Bell Solar Battery
AT&T Annual Report 1957
1958 Key Equipment Brochure
AT&T Annual Report 1958
Kellogg K1A1 Sales Brochure
You And Your Telephone
AT&T Annual Report 1959
Schmoo phone prototype (Bell Labs + Henry Dreyfuss)
AT&T Annual Report 1960
The New Starlite
AT&T Annual Report 1961
AT&T Annual Report 1962
AT&T Annual Report 1963
AT&T Annual Report 1964
Ericsson 1964 catalog
AT&T Annual Report 1965
Modern Business Telephones
Ericsson 1965 catalog
Genesis of the Transistor (Bell Labs)
Design Standards Coin Telephone Signs Bell System
AT&T Annual Report 1966
LP 3 Electronic Secretary Telephone Answering Set
AT&T Annual Report 1967
The Astonishing, Unfailing Bell System
AT&T Annual Report 1968
AT&T Annual Report 1969
GPO becomes public corporation in UK
Pollution (Western Electric)
Graphic Standards Manual Bell System
AT&T Annual Report 1970
AT&T Annual Report 1971
GTE Pushbutton Telephone Service brochure
1972 ITT Telephone Guide
AT&T Annual Report 1972
All Kinds of People (AT&T)
Building Identification Manual Bell System
Careers: Service Representative (AT&T)
Careers: Line Worker (AT&T)
Careers: Toll Operator (AT&T)
The Engineer (AT&T)
Miracle on 2nd Avenue
AT&T Annual Report 1975
AT&T Annual Report 1976
Ericsson 1976 catalog (1)
Ericsson 1976 catalog (2)
Ericsson 1976 catalog (3)
Ericsson 1976 catalog (4)
AT&T Annual Report 1977
ITT Telephone Guide
Northern Telecom DMS-100 digital switch
Telephone Office Planning and Engineering System (Bell Labs)
Good-Bye, Central
Tour of AT&T's Network Operations Center (AT&T)
Public Telephone Instruction Card Manual Bell System
Siemens debuts digital telephone switching
ISDN development begins at Bell Labs
We Make Telephones (Western Electric)
British Telecom separates from Post Office
1982 Famous Phones Pacific Northwest Bell
UNIX: Making Computers Easier To Use (Bell Labs)
AT&T antitrust settlement
Judge Greene orders breakup of the Bell System
1984 MCi Network Map
Bell System breakup takes effect
Siemens launches first mobile phone
Designing, Building and Testing the Trimline Phone (AT&T)
Inventing the Laser (Bell Labs)
Northern Telecom becomes Nortel